Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 2 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 3 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 4 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 5 | In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’ |
| 6 | These were : dégorgement ( the act of removing sediment from the bottle after the second fermentation ) and liqueur de tirage ( the addition of sugar and yeast at the time of bottling to promote and guarantee a second fermentation ) . |
| 7 | She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time . |
| 8 | This is a date and time serial number and corresponds to the time given by your computer 's system clock at the point you pressed the Enter key . |
| 9 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 10 | Agents were pondering whether they should n't ‘ hang on to thee rights , and wait for the time when they 're equipped to sell them , ’ as conference chairman Tony Feldman put it later . |
| 11 | How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ? |
| 12 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 13 | Which in turn brings us to the most remarkable fact of all , namely that so far from corroborating the police 's recent claims , the witnesses they located and interviewed at the time signally failed to mention any suspicious behaviour whatsoever . |
| 14 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 15 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 16 | The team specializes in work with the elderly , and consisted at the time of five full-time equivalent ( FTE ) qualified social workers . |
| 17 | And look at the time , half-past four ! ’ |
| 18 | He had only gone to Karlovy Vary to deliver a package — and look at the time , nearly four o'clock ! |
| 19 | I felt angry and humiliated at the time of the argument but I can guess at how he must have felt . |
| 20 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 21 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 22 | Charlie pulled out his fob-watch and glanced at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ His junior record was only fair ’ , recalls Gottfried , ‘ but he had a lot of the tools for the job and he was willing to learn and to put in the time . ’ |
| 24 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 25 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 26 | ‘ Any alterations or changes to the page must be noted and initialled at the time . |
| 27 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 28 | He agrees that tarot are the ‘ devil 's picture cards ’ and speaks of the time he was robbed of his powers just before his conversion . |
| 29 | She was there to answer when Cleopatra asked her who she was laughing at , and gone by the time she was supposed to say , ‘ Heigho ! |
| 30 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |