Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 2 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 3 | They clasped hands and held them clasped for a time . |
| 4 | Fergus in exchange for Calatin , for only Calatin could weave the Enchantment which would allow them to ride in the Time Chariot . |
| 5 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 6 | I 've had them followed from the time they left the house . |
| 7 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 8 | They agreed on a time , and Tracey rang off . |
| 9 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 10 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 11 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 12 | Given Mrs Thatcher 's relatively non-confrontational stance at Strasbourg , they hope by the time key decisions have to be taken over EMU next year , the British Government will have reviewed its EC strategy . |
| 13 | While appreciating the sophistication and fluidity of de Gaulle 's conceptions , one can not overlook the extreme reactions they provoked at the time or the extensive and mostly critical academic literature that has grown up around them since then . |
| 14 | A. J. P. Taylor 's grandfather , a businessman who had no doubt read the book , put the point more succinctly in the early months of the First World War : ‘ Ca n't they see as every time they kills a German , they kills a customer ? ’ |
| 15 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 16 | They emanate from a time about 300,000 years after the Big Bang and show the first signs of fluctuations in the density of matter in space . |
| 17 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 18 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 19 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
| 20 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 21 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 22 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
| 23 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 24 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 25 | On the one hand there were those introduced by British or British trained educationists because they appeared at the time to represent the ‘ best ’ education ( though naturally criteria for judging quality varied widely ) . |
| 26 | It is important , therefore , not to exaggerate the long-term effects of Anglo-American differences relating to Palestine , however serious they appeared at the time . |
| 27 | in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ? |
| 28 | ’ So they romanced for a time , whispering on the edge of sleep , until a noise of footsteps , first a few and then large numbers , came from the road outside . |
| 29 | They laugh about the time when Colin was making love with a girlfriend and Bella , in the room next door , heard her moan that her feet were cold . |
| 30 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |