Example sentences of "but [prep] that time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 2 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 5 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 6 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
| 7 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 8 | After that we use ordinary physics that we know and love and understand , but before that time we 're working with uncertain physics and uncertain cosmology . |
| 9 | But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island . |
| 10 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
| 11 | ‘ New linguistics ’ , for us , included books on English by , , and ; but at that time we had not caught up with the new developments associated with . |
| 12 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
| 13 | Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one . |
| 14 | ‘ Nowadays , David might reasonably be thought a part of this , but at that time he too seemed to be running out of steam . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 18 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 19 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |
| 20 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
| 21 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
| 22 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 23 | Wicked but by that time we felt we deserved it . |
| 24 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 25 | but by that time you 're experience in the C C Q. |
| 26 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But by that time it no longer mattered , for reports of similar effects in mammals had begun to appear . |
| 29 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 30 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |