Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 2 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
| 3 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 4 | Often a group of children will work alongside their teacher and may produce similar puppets , but at another time they may use the technique more creatively . |
| 5 | It is no good throwing things at them when they are safely in their dug-outs and shelters , but at some time they have to come out into the open , if only to change their clothes and appearance , and that is when we can get at them . |
| 6 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |