Example sentences of "them [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 2 | It was impossible for the garrison to fire upon them for some time without risk of injuring their neighbours along with their enemies . |
| 3 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 4 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 5 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 6 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 7 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 8 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 9 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 10 | what we 're dealing with is a small group of MP s who thought there were some advantages in the Paignton amendment I 've discussed it very thoroughly with them for some time , and they agree that there were real difficulties about the Paignton amendment which I 've now addressed |
| 11 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 12 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 13 | It may also be appropriate to explain that we have been using both systems , side by side , for over two years with files being transferred between them throughout that time . |
| 14 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of the er , dastardly Huns , I think you call them in this time period , seem to be up by the door to the General 's office which , according to Benny , is also a quicker route out . |
| 16 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 17 | About one-third of pupils have traditionally attended them since that time . |
| 18 | Cats feel vulnerable when they are defecating and do not like to have anyone near them at that time . |
| 19 | Did Louis IX really have a sound title to act as sovereign over them at that time ? |
| 20 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 21 | Would you have shared that view with them at that time ? |
| 22 | And then after when there was practically no erm commercial trade with them at that time . |
| 23 | This was telling them — trying to bolster their morale — that we were coming to their aid when it was virtually impossible for us to aid them at that time . |
| 24 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 25 | You were getting all your orders from them at that time ? |
| 26 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 27 | Keep one eye on them at all times to avoid problems . |
| 28 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 29 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 30 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |