Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [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 She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time .
6 The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan .
7 I felt angry and humiliated at the time of the argument but I can guess at how he must have felt .
8 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 .
9 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 !
10 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 .
11 Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label .
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