Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 2 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 3 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 4 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 5 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 6 | Mrs Thatcher 's last-minute play for the collection was in 1988 , but by that time it was too late : a contract had been signed with the Spanish government ( see interview with Baron Thyssen , p.6 ) , committing the collection to a ten-year loan in Madrid . |
| 7 | But by that time it no longer mattered , for reports of similar effects in mammals had begun to appear . |
| 8 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 9 | At the time of its merger with Powick , in the closing stages of the rundown of the latter hospital , the fusing of specialisms was seen to offer many advantages , but by this time it had already been decided to resettle residents in permanent community hostels . |
| 10 | But by this time it 's become easy to forgive a film that is pleasingly constructed and charmingly executed . |
| 11 | In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris . |