Example sentences of "were [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the doorman 's assurance that they were within time reconciled them . |
| 2 | Hereditary wardenships , for example , were from time to time inherited by priests : in 1207 William of Wrotham , Archdeacon of Taunton , received from King John seisin of the lands he held in chief in Somerset , and the wardenship of the forests of Somerset and Exmoor in Devon . |
| 3 | Other wardens were from time to time granted leave by Henry III to postpone their accounts at the Exchequer , and he remitted the debts of others . |
| 4 | Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained . |
| 5 | Presentments for breaches of these purlieu laws were from time to time made at the Essex swanimotes in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries . |
| 6 | Not handsome , but nice-looking in a way I had usually rather deprecated , if not despised : not the lean and craggy looks that I had always admired , but a blunt-featured face with a wide mouth , dark eyes tilted slightly down at the outer corners , and an untidy thatch of brown hair of which a couple of locks fell over a broad forehead , and were from time to time irritably brushed back . |
| 7 | Although there were from time to time reports of " crossed aphasia " , in which the lesion is on the same side as the preferred hand ( Bramwell , 1899 ) , these were initially regarded as no more than occasional exceptions of the " contralateral rule " . |
| 8 | It is supposed to be the boring part of the journey and if the train were on time would be crossed at night . |
| 9 | Last year its 30 roll-on/roll-off ferries carried 6.2m passengers , 1.3m cars , 111,000 commercial vehicles and 16,500 coaches , and 95% of the sailings were on time . |
| 10 | She looked at her watch ; they were on time . |
| 11 | Were on time |
| 12 | Cos all the trains were on time |
| 13 | THE Fugitive handcuffs and a message from the Lord Mayor of London were among time capsule contents being buried today by Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford . |
| 14 | If indigence were the sole criterion , then the category would include Oliver Goldsmith , the young Samuel Johnson , Christopher Smart and numerous other poets who enjoyed the distinct privilege of a university education but were at times besieged by duns . |
| 15 | Although he obviously trains hard , the English management were at times left frustrated by his preference for playing over preparation . |
| 16 | Some other aspects of the anti-Modernism of the new fiction , it must be conceded , were at times more chauvinistic than reasoned . |
| 17 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 18 | We ran into some bad weather on the way , with heavy rain followed by thick fog , which was frustrating because we were at times up near the permanent snowline , and had occasional glimpses of birds like rough-legged buzzard , with Lapland bunting and red-throated pipits by the roadside . |
| 19 | Not all members of commissions could be stifled , however , and debates were at times acrimonious . |
| 20 | Lady Laura Riding , speaking in support of the proposals , declared that if prostitutes were at times ‘ liable to be harried ’ , that was the consequence of their own actions . |
| 21 | In the aftermath of the Cuban revolution , the Communists , forced to contend with Castroite , Maoist and Trotskyist dissenters , all of whom advocated armed struggle , were at times uncertain how to respond to the rise of guerrilla activity in their own countries . |
| 22 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 23 | The two brothers were at times united in their hostility to Chilperic 's son Chlothar II , and at one moment they reduced the latter 's kingdom to territory between the Seine , the Oise and the sea . |