Example sentences of "[vb past] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under reasonably constant temperature conditions , the prototype unit provided a time period of 24 hours within two or three minutes . |
| 2 | They fixed a time and he turned back to his friends . |
| 3 | They fixed a time . |
| 4 | They fixed a time . |
| 5 | With single doses of 0.1 to 1.5 g of gluten using Frazer 's fraction III , Marsh et al found a time dependent dose related increase in intraepithelial lymphocyte after 12 hours , but no changes in mucosal architecture . |
| 6 | Boulton quotes R.V. , a mother of three small children who created a time boundary : |
| 7 | But there came a time when that struggle could no longer increase life enjoyment as far as the adult population was concerned . |
| 8 | Though I jumped too when he cracked the whip , there came a time when I refused to jump as high as the others . |
| 9 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 10 | We 're advancing all the time and I think there may came a time we wo n't use animals at all for medical research , but at , up till now we needed to use animals for medical research . |
| 11 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 12 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 13 | There came a time , though , when even these were abandoned and a large hall-like building was constructed on a completely different alignment , which even ignored the Roman street lines . |
| 14 | There came a time when she thought that if she did it once more , he would burst of an apoplexy . |
| 15 | Ali and Ahmed made a time to meet on the beach to fish . |
| 16 | They agreed a time and place to meet . |
| 17 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 18 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 19 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 20 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 21 | The DFG originally wanted to allow the fellowships to run indefinitely until the researcher obtained a permanent post , but the government imposed a time limit of five years . |
| 22 | In the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark on the other hand , Charles Dickens ( whose father spent a time there in 1824 ) made clear in Little Dorrit the prisoners were able to find help of every kind within the prison 's walls . |
| 23 | We needed a time to be fed from the Word of God . |
| 24 | The fastest Farnham Road Club pairing of A. Lloyd-Langston and B. Robinson recorded a time of 54 mins. 18 seconds , although the result may have been different , with M. Barrett finishing solo in a time of 54–47 after his partner , D. Wright , had to retire with mechanical trouble . |
| 25 | Walker recorded a time of 8 mins 26.50 secs in Auckland two years ago , and after a highly successful , injury-free winter , had hoped for a better opening to his steeplechase season . |
| 26 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 27 | The end of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth brought a time of confusion and revised Swiss administration in the wake of the Napoleonic wars , and in 1803 , St Gallen 's monastery was secularised along with others in Switzerland , the new canton of St Gallen was formed , and the city became its capital . |
| 28 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 29 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 30 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |