Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 2 | The Greenlys moved to Clevedon for some time , in which district he made valuable contributions to Pre-Cambrian , Palaeozoic , and Quaternary geology . |
| 3 | An important centre in the Middle Ages was the Island of Gotland , regained by Sweden at this time from control by the Hanseatic League . |
| 4 | This might indeed have happened but for the good fortune of it being discovered by Frits and Maaike Luikens , a Dutch couple who were living in Alford at that time . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 6 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 7 | Erm were were your brothers and sisters all living in Llaneilian at that time ? |
| 8 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 9 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |
| 10 | One-fifth of all Russian victuals came from Siberia at this time according to local estimates . |
| 11 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 12 | The serial number of this bass , 72997058 , tells us that it was made in Kalamazoo ( that 's the 0 ; guitars made in Nashville at this time carried a 5 ) and that it was the 58th made in the batch that was stamped the 299th day of the year . |
| 13 | Even so , most of the pottery made in Crete at this time , including Knossos itself , was rather carelessly decorated . |
| 14 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 15 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 16 | Erbo Graf von Kageneck , the leading pilot of III/JG27. which was briefly operating over Malta at this time . |
| 17 | Stories told about Burton at this time are necessarily retrospective and tend to suffer from retrospective grandeur and glamour . |
| 18 | Furthermore , training schemes do not produce the skills or the qualifications for the jobs that are needed in Britain at this time . |
| 19 | Flogging was reintroduced in India at this time by the Whipping Act of 1864 , and even the bare statistical details of the numbers of floggings carried out by the British are enough to make the blood run cold . |
| 20 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 21 | ‘ Look what happened to God after that Time cover — fundamentalism began sweeping the world . |
| 22 | North America was still such a young country in 1700 that it will be more useful to look at Europe during this time . |
| 23 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |
| 24 | In the absence of evidence of valuable raw materials being extracted in England at this time , both explanations remain possible . |
| 25 | Minsmere gives a chance of one of the most varied day 's birdwatching in Britain at any time of the year , with many exciting birds at very close range . |
| 26 | The most coherent films to emerge from Elstree during this time were both set in the Edwardian era , Losey 's glorious The Go-Between ( 1970 ) and The Railway Children ( 1970 ) , with the latter aiming at that much-lamented but largely-departed family audience . |
| 27 | Until recently , it had been assumed that the greatest of the medieval pope — lawyers was a pupil of the renowned Master Huguccio of Pisa , teaching in Bologna at this time , whose Summa on the Decretum of Gratian was well-known and whose teaching , linking theology with canonistics , the science of the Church 's law , attracted students . |
| 28 | The film director Michael Law whom Minton met in Soho at this time has provided a vivid metaphor for his condition : ‘ Johnny was really like a clock with the machinery hanging out . |
| 29 | A Polish couple who lived in Cambuslang at that time regularly frequented the Shop in search of children 's clothes . |
| 30 | It is possible , for instance , to see in California at this time the beginnings of a national swing to the right . |