Example sentences of "that [prep] the time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some officers can now see that at the time they were " typical colonialists " who failed to read the signs of the tinies or entrust positions of authority more readily to African leadership . |
| 2 | Peter and Paul hope that by the time they are grown up , the doctors will know more about HC and how to stop it . |
| 3 | ‘ Many seem to increase their speed so that by the time they take the left hand fork to Cuckoo 's Corner pick your own farm , they are often doing speeds over 50mph . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Springboks really believed that by the time they faced us at Twickenham — 12 months after the World Cup final — they would lift the crown unofficially . |
| 5 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 6 | So what I 'm saying is we need to be very , as soon as you get the stuff , that , if you wan na get anything out of this course at all , and what people do get out of the course , is the fact that by the time they leave here we 've said right , that 's the way we 're going that 's what we 're gon na aim for and it is reasonable time . |
| 7 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |