Example sentences of "[adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 2 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 3 | I do , I hope but we appreciated Claire and Steven had her more than we had , but you know , we 've had the odd times we 've virtually been across there a month or something like , but but when you have a position where you have five |
| 4 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 5 | ‘ Strange times we live in . ’ |
| 6 | Strange times we live in , he said , when he finds himself looking over his shoulder and thinking he might be safer in Sarajevo . |
| 7 | Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them . |
| 8 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 9 | At different times he published works by Sarah Fielding , Charlotte Lennox , Susanna Centlivre , Eliza Haywood , Elizabeth Carter , and Mary Barber , as well as others . |
| 10 | His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport . |
| 11 | Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but |
| 12 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 13 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 14 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
| 15 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
| 16 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
| 17 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |
| 18 | ‘ In the old times we hijras used to be like your zero zero seven . |
| 19 | ‘ I was going to give the two of you a few more minutes out there , but if you 've exhausted old times you can come and meet Luke Scott . ’ |
| 20 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 22 | Well I mean we can always unmake it presumably cos next week it will be , it 'll be different time I expect wo n't it ? |
| 23 | After a long exciting time we caught the train and went home tired but happy . |
| 24 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 25 | It is high time we renewed our acquaintance with young Benjamin Titford , William Charles 's younger brother . |
| 26 | It is a little close to Christmas , but that seems a good excuse for a party and it 's high time we entertained some of our friends . |
| 27 | It is high time we ceased to allow people to talk about rugby union as a minority sport — even a post-World Cup modest club match on Rugby Special rated two million viewers . |
| 28 | ‘ Come on , it 's high time we were heading for home ourselves . |
| 29 | ‘ High time we heard them , I think . |
| 30 | It is high time we realised that we are lagging behind and that roads alone can not solve our problem . |