Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the method described by Braybrook and Powell ( 1980 ) has moved on since this time , it still does not reflect current knowledge of child language . |
| 2 | As the trade union movement has found out in recent times , sometimes to its painful cost , modern capitalism and exploitation does not recognize international frontiers and employers and their political supporters are not slow to export their practices to countries whose borders have previously been closed to them . |
| 3 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 4 | If the purpose of these ivory carvings remains a matter for discussion , it is evident that Upper Palaeolithic man began the custom of using ivory as a medium for animal and human sculpture which has lasted down to modern times . |
| 5 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 6 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 7 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 8 | Of course it did I , I , I was able to , I was able to pick up , and I used to clear up crimes which I know that some of the others would n't have cleared up at that time . |
| 9 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 10 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 11 | Now do you think anybody who was n't already tied in to that wanted to get tied in at that time ? ’ |
| 12 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 13 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 14 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 15 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 16 | For it was a mistake by the giant Eachus which transformed the game , gave Glenavon the breakthrough they needed and an upsurge in confidence to sweep to a victory they had wrapped up by half time . |
| 17 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 18 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 19 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 20 | It had gone up in that time . |
| 21 | KEITH Pringle had split up with long time girlfriend Leanne Rees on several occasions . |
| 22 | After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time . |
| 23 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's gone up since last time , ’ I replied . |
| 25 | Look forward to your future with optimism , even though you may have been feeling held back for some time . |