Example sentences of "up [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 2 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 3 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 4 | that makes up for the time you , then doing the |
| 5 | Form the moment they wake up until the time they go to bed , whether they are playing with friends or at school , their minds and bodies are always active . |
| 6 | According to DC Groves , up to the time they left the premises there was no reason to suspect fraud . |
| 7 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 8 | Up to the time she started school , she was very clinging . |
| 9 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 10 | Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there . |
| 11 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 12 | Oh , it did , went on for up to the time I retired . |
| 13 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 14 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 15 | At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there . |
| 16 | as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there . |
| 17 | The rear windows have steamed up by the time we decant her , and do not clear again until we are nearly over Putney Bridge . |
| 18 | It grieves organic farmers like Brian Tustian of Brackley , Northamptonshire , to see how much their produce has been marked up by the time it reaches the shops . |
| 19 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 20 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |
| 21 | Chamberlain coughed politely and said he was sure it would be cleared up by the time he took over . |