Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for a time they were merely raiders , these Celtic cousins had ambitions to acquire land and permanent residence , and were as ready to fight the Picts as to co-operate with them . |
| 2 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 3 | particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it |
| 4 | Although at the time he was ‘ not a great fan of industrial specialism' , his views have changed . |
| 5 | " Able-Oboe-Charlie " was the aircrew phonetics used by the early Pathfinders to identify their Commandant , although at the time he was officially a Commander of the Pathfinder Force , with the acting rank of group captain under the control of No 3 Group for day-to-day administration . |
| 6 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
| 7 | So George , a carpenter , bought his primary school teacher wife her first ewes , although at the time she admitted ‘ not knowing one end of a sheep from the other . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The general expectation in the MoD at that time was that you would get another round of discussions with Argentina at a political level , and that the real difficulties were more likely to occur in the summer than at the time they did . ’ |
| 9 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 10 | Such are the rigours of their adulthood ( working in bons , never eating till 11pm ) that many Hoorays remember their schooldays as the happiest time of their lives ; their schoolfriends are those they feel most at ease with , even if at the time they could n't stand them . |
| 11 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 12 | a coincidence cos at the time I started taking them actually trying to spare my branch work in a bank . |
| 13 | aged quite rapidly , we were lucky with ours cos at the time I could n't , you know thought she was about twelve , |
| 14 | ( And all the time , at the back of my mind , the pedestals of famous philosophers , teachers , and experts were falling , until by the time I reached my own road they were just ordinary human beings . ) |
| 15 | ‘ You and I are going to get filthily drunk , Prentice , and if by the time we get to the bottom of this bottle I have n't got some sort of sense out of you I 'm going to break it over your thick fucking skull . ’ |
| 16 | Not when it 's dark nights cos by the time I get home |
| 17 | Cos by the time you said , What did I just say ? |
| 18 | Cos by the time you you 've felt it you 've passed it maybe ? |
| 19 | She had always known that Finn would reappear , because for a time they always did , never quite sure that the new woman was an improvement on the old one , keeping their options open . |
| 20 | Not so much because I do n't understand the subject ( that is no real obstacle to a lecturer ) , but more because of the time we are likely to consume , even if we keep a respectable distance from quantum mechanics and concentrate solely on phenomenological theories . |
| 21 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 22 | THREE Glasgow men jailed last week for four years for bringing hashish into Spain have been released because of the time they spent awaiting trial , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 23 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 24 | As with most projects in Hollywood , there was always an overlap between one and another , sometimes of a year or two simply because of the time it takes to get an idea , or a script or a novel , written , financed , budgeted and into production . |
| 25 | He said the explosion appeared to be unplanned because of the time it occurred . |
| 26 | Because of the time it took to travel , clothes had to stay packed for long periods , and the number of changes needed throughout the day and evening necessitated quantities of clothes which were packed in different shaped dressing cases , boot boxes , hat boxes , umbrella cases , trunks and suitcases . |
| 27 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |
| 28 | It is a little known but true fact that a two legged creature can usually beat a four legged creature over a short distance , simply because of the time it takes the quadruped to get its legs sorted out . |
| 29 | ‘ There are very great difficulties in actually compelling people to come back here to give evidence — the crew for example — to a formal sheriff 's inquiry because of the time it takes to set up . ’ |
| 30 | Round-the-World yachtsman Chay Blyth , 51 , is being sued for divorce by his wife , Margaret , on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour because of the time he has spent at sea . |