Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] [noun] ['s] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill was eventually forced to cease operations during Mr Bright 's time when a large pond , further upstream , was drained by a colliery to reduce water leakage into the coal workings . |
| 2 | Every spare moment of John Drake 's time is devoted to the two-acre garden he has carved out in an open and exposed part of the Fens near Cambridge . |
| 3 | The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and St Paul was founded in 1083 , about 50 years before Brother Cadfael 's time ; three huge columns and a wonderfully preserved Norman archway survive from those days . |
| 4 | According to Patrick Forbes , in Champagne , the abbey of Hautvillers owned one hundred arpents ( an arpent is an old French measure which varied in size between thirty-five and fifty ares ) of vineyards some thirty years before Dom Pérignon 's time and this estate would have certainly increased in his lifetime . |
| 5 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 6 | Other priorities for Mr Marshall 's time will be set by his line manager , in consultation with myself . |
| 7 | We should , perhaps , not be surprised that such modest progress has been made in improving prison conditions since John Howard 's time . |
| 8 | You do n't have to believe in God in order to practise astronomy or to understand how the movement of the planets is regulated , as might have been thought to be the case before Isaac Newton 's time . |
| 9 | The speed of the train in Queen Victoria 's time was , by her own wish , kept down to about 36 miles an hour , but now it travels at the line speed . |
| 10 | Surley the changes were not designed to shift debit figures into the past in Mr Young 's time as stewardship , so as to avoid burdening the new management team in the future ? |
| 11 | Not only the last , but also those other alterations in attitude to domestic environment mentioned earlier , which seem to occur between 1817 and 1837 , combine to give a building and its contents a quite different claim upon the imagination from their significance in Jane Austen 's time . |
| 12 | Filmmakers were rarely imported from outside ( Thorold Dickinson , who was allowed in to make Secret People in 1952 , could be regarded as an ‘ old boy ’ since he had worked at the studio during Basil Dean 's time ) and , with five directors responsible for two-thirds of the films made at the studio between 1942 and 1955 , there was little competition inside the studio , and no exposure to fresh ideas from outside . |
| 13 | Warriors of El Cid 's time , in mail shirts ; from an eleventh century ivory reliquary of San Millan de la Copolla . |
| 14 | Parkin 's commentary said that another notable feature of Ken O'Mara 's time as editor was his commitment to running controversial films — whoever they might embarrass . |
| 15 | Crowe put in that the symbolists of Van Gogh 's time had supposed there was a universal language of colour , a primary language , a divine alphabet of colours and forms . |
| 16 | Two incidents from William Joyce 's time at the College of St Ignatius Loyola were to foreshadow his public personality in adult life . |
| 17 | I SHALL treasure my copy of Friday morning 's Times carrying the front-page headline ‘ Exit polls point to certainty of a hung parliament ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ You remember the house in Mr Appleby 's time , do n't you , Leithen ? |
| 19 | The judges themselves , deriving their authority from the Crown , were minded in the distant past to delegate , and the undisputed view in Lord Mansfield 's time was that the judges had delegated their disciplinary power over the Bar to the Inns of Court . |