Example sentences of "but [prep] [det] 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 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 6 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island . |
| 11 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Nowadays , David might reasonably be thought a part of this , but at that time he too seemed to be running out of steam . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But at that time she herself had been determined to find out all there was to know . |
| 23 | For the first ten minutes of the second half , we started playing a bit ( but at this time we needed 4 goals to go thorough ) and Whelan scored after a good cross by Kelly . |
| 24 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The lake is part of our design , but at any time we will keep the lake open and that is what we are doing . |
| 27 | But at any time she could be called out to back up the site 's regular fire crew . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Nothing is known of Hotham 's early years , but at some time he established himself as a hatter and hosier in Serle Street , Lincoln 's Inn , London , and later ( c .1752 ) in the Strand , advertising his wares by circulating copper tokens in London and the provinces . |
| 30 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |