Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 2 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 3 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 4 | ‘ You have to look ahead to the time when you leave football , and I wanted to prepare for a life in sport and leisure management , ’ he said . |
| 5 | To look backward to the time when first the morning stars sang together ! ’ |
| 6 | Should they wish to complete the programme students should make arrangements to do so within the time limits specified . |
| 7 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 8 | For mortality , the intensity of selection in a stable population ( r=0 ) remains constant during the pre-reproductive period because the consequences of death for reproductive success remain constant ; selection intensity starts to decline only at the time of first breeding . |
| 9 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 10 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 11 | King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him . |
| 12 | No one else seemed to think so at the time . |
| 13 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 14 | On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received . |
| 15 | Curiosity will be aroused by an exhibition which unites artists who would never have agreed to show together at the time when this sculpture was being made . |
| 16 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 17 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 18 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 19 | In Newham the cost of services continued to rise slightly to the time of the third assessment , but in Ipswich they dropped back a little . |
| 20 | To understand the font situation it is necessary to step back to the time before there was desktop publishing , at least in an electronic sense . |