Example sentences of "up [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 2 | At his first school , Stockwell Junior School , David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play . |
| 3 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 4 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ Jed said , speaking up for the first time , ‘ at least there were n't any tolling bells in it . ’ |
| 6 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 7 | Gazza and Maradona square up for the first time for the world 's undisputed No 1 title as Lazio take on Seville in a friendly in Spain . |
| 8 | Accurate pictures could now be built up for the first time as to how tigers spent their day , how often they killed , their associations with other tigers and how the young animals found and established their own home ranges . |
| 9 | Ray Hanna takes G–FIRE up for the first time , Elstree , March 14 , 1981. ( via Spencer Flack ) |
| 10 | Late in March Mahmoud showed up for the first time since the Yanks had moved out . |
| 11 | The one-year , part-time Certificate was set up for the first time in 1983. it was , and still is , aimed at developing professional competence in language teachers in adult education mainly on a pre-service and , in a more limited way , in-service basis . |
| 12 | Outside his ears picked up for the first time the rustling of invisible leaves and the rattle of window-frames : the wind was rising . |
| 13 | ‘ I am particularly excited about the opportunities that it will provide for opening up for the first time higher educational facilities in the area . |
| 14 | In some parts of the south-east , groundwater levels are lower than at any time since records began 200 years ago , with some boreholes in the Chiltern Hills drying up for the first time since they were sunk last century . |
| 15 | Loan star Imre Varadi comes in on the starting line up for the first time in favour of the suspended Nick Cusack . |
| 16 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 17 | JACK BERRY went ton up for the second time with two Warwick winners yesterday , just to prove that no one needs a magic carpet to be a hit . |
| 18 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 19 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 20 | It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work . |
| 21 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 22 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 23 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 24 | Now I do n't detect in the work of the er panel on doctrine up to the present time anything which tackles |
| 25 | This was on entirely modern lines and has continued to expand right up to the present time . |
| 26 | Later in the century , with the rise of the labour movement , a different contrast was drawn , between capitalism and socialism , between ‘ bourgeois democracy ’ and ‘ socialist democracy ’ , and this distinction has largely dominated political controversy up to the present time . |
| 27 | Up to the present time , the study of language and its relation both to processes involved in language performance and to processes underlying the activity of reasoning have been fragmented , split into the separate disciplines of linguistics , artificial intelligence , pragmatics ( the study of human communication ) , and psychology , each with their own theoretical models of language or aspects of language use . |
| 28 | The letter says ‘ Up to the present time items of play equipment have been loaned by Scorton Village School but these have now had to be returned and replacement equipment will be most beneficial for the group to continue . |
| 29 | My success up to the present time has been greater than I could have anticipated both as regards obtaining much information that is entirely new as well as in bringing together one of the finest collections that has ever been formed . |
| 30 | Because largely up to the present time in the er , as far as older people are concerned , then the only alternative to the current truth , and direct provider of services , has been the straight private sector . |