Example sentences of "time they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 2 | They were awake before dawn and for the second time they heard the chorus begin as a trickle and grow swiftly to a torrent as the birds welcomed the great Trumpeter . |
| 3 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 4 | No doubt coach Jack Rowell will already have pencilled in the champagne breakfast he gives his players every time they win the league or cup for May 2nd — the day after the Pilkington Cup final . |
| 5 | Thereafter the reaction occurs obligingly every time they eat the food — but the response is a psychogenic one . |
| 6 | Velleius Paterculus and the Latin source of the first books of Appian 's Civil War ( for which Emilio Gabba suggested the name of Asinius Pollio ) came nearer to an Italian version of Roman political history , but by the time they wrote the imperialism of the Republic had turned into the bureaucratic Empire of the Caesars : what these historians said could no longer bear fruit . |
| 7 | Sliwa said : ‘ If people are going to like you it 's time they know the truth . |
| 8 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 9 | According to DC Groves , up to the time they left the premises there was no reason to suspect fraud . |
| 10 | I 've had them followed from the time they left the house . |
| 11 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 12 | For a long time they treated the question of political power as wholly subordinate to the social struggle . |
| 13 | But it is time they recognised the PLO as the real representative of the Palestinian people . ’ |
| 14 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 15 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 16 | One is attempting to discover what was the intention of the parties at the time they made the contract . |
| 17 | If screaming for sweets in the supermarket can occasionally be successful the child learns that it is worth having a go every time they pass the supermarket checkout . |
| 18 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 19 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 20 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 21 | By the time they reach the secondary school , the majority of children will have developed their own style of handwriting . |
| 22 | By the time they reach the end of the pool they are too exhausted to climb out . |
| 23 | By the time they reach the age and salary level of a first year graduate chartered accountant trainee , they are already working in ‘ semi-senior positions ’ and contributing to the firm while still training . |
| 24 | By the time they reach the flat lands they have become deep and substantial — the greatest waterways in all the Old World . |
| 25 | This means that students must be able to achieve and demonstrate success in Compact terms by the time they reach the compulsory school leaving age at the end of the fifth year of secondary education . |
| 26 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 27 | The wreaths sold well , fetching prices over three pounds each , a figure that will double by the time they reach the shops . |
| 28 | ONE in three schoolchildren in Wales has experimented at least once with drugs by the time they reach the fifth form , a conference heard yesterday . |
| 29 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 30 | ‘ Many seem to increase their speed so that by the time they take the left hand fork to Cuckoo 's Corner pick your own farm , they are often doing speeds over 50mph . ’ |