Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 2 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 4 | There were n't that many rehearsal places around at that time which we could afford . |
| 5 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 6 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 7 | The demon coughed nervously ( demons do not breathe ; however , every intelligent being , whether it breathes or not , coughs nervously at some time in its life . |
| 8 | Because it forms slowly over geological time in the Cretaceous chalk , minute amounts of clay dispersed in the chalk are incorporated within the flint . |
| 9 | Normally , the council has about 90pc of the 58,000 forms back by this time . |
| 10 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 11 | They probably change shifts round about this time . |
| 12 | Rubato means not in strict time . |
| 13 | In the limit B 0 , the complex map can be approximated by the real noninvertible map where I = E. Introduction of a finite value for augments the left side of the above by a term , and the index n gives over to continuous time t . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he traces a lot of his troubles back to that time . |
| 15 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 16 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 17 | And when the third and surviving princess emerges from her orange , Lesley Garrett immediately makes up for lost time , singing ravishingly . |
| 18 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |