Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] time [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Was it in the car like last time when he did n't manage it ? ’
2 But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic .
3 Three pairs of oyster-catchers were sighted around the main region and a total of 13 common sandpipers and a flight of 18 turnstones , most colourful birds and on passage at this time when they occur regularly at Abberton .
4 Sherry , by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons , was one of the fastest climbing chart toppers of all time when it was released in Britain in 1962 .
5 In the last minute , Bernie Gallacher , the Villa full-back , denied Wolves the chance of extra time when he headed Shane Westley 's header from under the bar .
6 Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on .
7 He told me not to open my mouth to either of you and Una until such time when he would tell all three of you himself .
8 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
9 It is perhaps surprising that Dempsey is ranked among the greatest champions of all time when he was artificially protected from the challenge of black opponents .
10 did any of them have symptoms during that time when they had recurrences , that brought them back ?
11 They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke .
12 We all find ourselves in a situation at some time where we have to carry a very heavy suitcase , or where a parcel has been delivered and has to be lifted into the house .
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