Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Anybody who lived through that time in Oswaldston will have a lot of memories of it-some of them bitter , some of them funny .
2 He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage .
3 But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) .
4 However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived .
5 I have a memory , half forgotten from that time of youth and magic , that knows of a secret garden .
6 Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year .
7 They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards .
8 Some naturalists believe that tigers will mate at any time of year .
9 A very low-fat start to the day is tomatoes or mushrooms on a slice of wholemeal toast ; and the baked bean must not be forgotten at this time of day .
10 Any given rise in unemployment in the winter months , therefore , can only be shown to be significant if it can be demonstrated that the rise is over and above that which is normally expected at that time of year .
11 Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year .
12 … or is it just another of those little habits ( much favoured by men ) that seem to flourish at this time of year .
13 The routine can be enlivened at any time of year by the occasional charter to other destinations .
14 Walk at any time from June to September .
15 A child was fatally injured at some time between noon and 8.30 pm .
16 He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night .
17 There is even a seasonal indicator which occurs at this time of year .
18 We knew that the radio news was not transmitted at that time of day , so we decided it was just another of his silly jokes .
19 Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning .
20 So we aim to provide some of the luxuries which most of us tend to take for granted at this time of year . ’
21 The efforts made at that time by Sartre , Camus , Merleau-Ponty et alia to rehabilitate Nizan achieved no more than to illustrate the impossibility of reasoned dialogue with the French communist party at moments of extreme ideological polarisation .
22 Substitutions may be made at any time without penalty .
23 Can you find out about any others that can be seen at this time of year ?
24 Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year .
25 ( Groups welcome at any time by arrangement ) .
26 Makassar , still barely visited at that time by foreigners , was an eye-opener .
27 It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe .
28 Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him .
29 In its rough state , he showed it to the Professor , who bent his grey beard over the neat script , and read for some time in silence .
30 The October 1990 rate cut was anticipated for some time in advance by the gilt market which bought gilts and drove up gilt prices ( see Fig. 17.3 ) , as was the continued fall in base rates over the next two years .
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