Example sentences of "time it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |
| 2 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 3 | At the same time it diverted attention away from the underlying structural explanations of society and economy , as part of a general process of ‘ mystification ’ whereby surface manifestations are confused for root causes . |
| 4 | The scientists concluded that it would have been better to leave the beaches alone , but as one commented : " At the time it made sense . |
| 5 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 6 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |
| 7 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 8 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |
| 9 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 10 | The weekly ritual slaughter was too gory a ceremony for her to watch , though every time it took place she was reminded of how it always fascinated her daughters when they were children . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 12 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 13 | In 1714 , in the context of a marriage settlement , at which time it formed part of the Pudhill estate , it was a fulling mill , owned by Ann Cambridge . |
| 14 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |
| 15 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 16 | During this time it grew dark , the darkness seeming to rise from the river to make it one with the sky . |
| 17 | At the same time it gave encouragement to local amenity groups to press for improvements . |
| 18 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |
| 19 | Luke stood with legs wide apart , hitting the horse with the whip-handle every time it showed signs of slowing down . |
| 20 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |
| 21 | According to one account , by the time it hit Villequier , it was a wall of water several metres high moving at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 22 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |