Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
| 2 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 3 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 4 | But after a time the book fell from his hand . |
| 5 | But after a time the right person could tie you down . |
| 6 | As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ . |
| 7 | But from the time the engine stopped he had five or six seconds to hit the ground . |
| 8 | It is difficult to appreciate it now in the liberated 80's , but at the time the worst thing an unmarried girl could do was get pregnant , and the worst news a mother could hear from her daughter was , ‘ I 'm going to have a baby ! ’ |
| 9 | With the advantage of hindsight , we can take stock of the position at this point , but at the time the Colonel had only runners to keep him in touch with his headquarters and forward Troops , whose wirelesses had been knocked out . |
| 10 | Membership of the Founders ' Trust had changed frequently in the quest to find more women , working-class people and blacks , but at the time the prospectus was issued the original five Founders — Lowe , Walsh , Cooper , Sadgrove and Power — had been joined by a mixture of others . |
| 11 | At this distance , we may find Balboa 's antics in the surf laughably pretentious ; but at the time the sighting of the Mar del Sur , as he felt compelled to christen the new sea , was a formidable discovery indeed : the implications of its swift and secure passage into the hands of Spain were profound in the extreme . |
| 12 | But at the time the car was being hired , Mr Stratton was on his way to Didcot Railway Centre — of that fact there can be no doubt whatsoever . |
| 13 | But at the time the government decided that it was perhaps the lesser of two evils , especially when all the anticipated dam-aging domestic and foreign implications of refusal were taken into account . |
| 14 | Their story was first revealed in The Northern Echo earlier this year , but at the time the couple wanted to remain anonymous . |
| 15 | He was diverted during coffee by a thumb nail sketch of that fruitless expedition , but by the time the sommelier had visited the table with Cognac a second time , he was back to the great danger of ennui in the BEF , and 2nd Grenadiers ’ seven months in France spent cultivating a defensive mentality which could well be disastrous if hostilities ever broke out . |
| 16 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 17 | But by the time the decree came through , Herbert had discovered that no place was available at Summerhill . |
| 18 | But by the time the scheme goes into year-round service , in 1985 , computers will cut the time-lag down to just four hours . |
| 19 | This , incidentally , was something of a retreat by Bukharin from his stance of 1920 , but by the time the present text was written he was being far more cautious ; the exuberance of ‘ war communism ’ had run its course . |
| 20 | Hick has a classic stance , but by the time the bowler has reached the crease he has come up into the familiar upright position with the bat raised . |
| 21 | To import a light aircraft from the USA may not be overly difficult , but by the time the cost of the U.S. Export Certificate , British C of A , CAA registration and inspection and ferrying are added up , there is probably little change out of £6,000 . |
| 22 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 23 | Trainer John Hills had high hopes of winning the Ebor with Castoret , but by the time the horse got clear the race was over . |
| 24 | Nobody knows exactly how many people were responsible for input , but by the time the dummy was finished more than two hundred had played a part one way or another . |
| 25 | It 's loud , certainly , but by the time the third track , ‘ Earth Mofo ’ , kicks into gear the pattern of stodgy , leaden and downright lazy arrangements has already been well-established . |
| 26 | But by the time the delegation set out for Paris , the French Draft Constitution had already been rejected — and with it the principle of free consent on which the French Union was to be based — and while he was still en route to France Ho learned that a Provisional Government of Cochinchina had been announced . |
| 27 | Obviously , the flavour which whisky gives to a sauce differs from that produced by cognac , armagnac or Calvados ; certainly the aromas coming from the pot while the whisky is cooking are also very different ; but by the time the alcohol has been burned and cooked away I wonder how many people would spot what precisely the difference is . |
| 28 | But by the time the DTI and other City institutions wake up to the severity of Norton 's plight , will there by anything left that 's worth saving ? |
| 29 | No attempt at organised march was made whatsoever , but by the time the Croats , both soldiers and civilians , had passed the road junction … leading to Bleiburg , they had been stripped of everything they possessed , including animals , carts , bicycles , food and personal belongings etc . |
| 30 | Further attempts at negotiation failed but by the time the dragoons appeared , the crowd had unaccountably melted away . |