Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary . |
| 2 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 3 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 4 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 5 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 6 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 7 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 8 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 9 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 10 | During this time it had become clear to him that , to use his phrase , ‘ the Holy Spirit had separated ’ him to the Vineyard movement which is led by John Wimber . |
| 11 | During this time it has donated more than £600,000 to over 2500 local groups , helping the disabled , under fives , elderly and youth groups with a wide range of special projects , or improving their facilities . |
| 12 | During this time he had remained by the door , his expressionless gaze following her every move . |
| 13 | During this time he had admitted killing William Egan . |
| 14 | During this time he 'd settled with ease into the household , which had surprised the girls who looked after him ; they had anticipated difficulty . |
| 15 | In his introduction to the environmental policy document which will be issued to employees in 1993 , Chief Executive Kneale Ashwell explains : ‘ For some time we have recognised the need for a policy to increase awareness , to deal with environmental issues and to implement systems which ensure the Company complies with all relevant legislation and manages the essential attitudinal and behavioural changes that are likely to affect business operations . |
| 16 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 17 | For some time she had done all that was possible to avoid going out in the rain as she could not bear the thought of the water touching her skin . |
| 18 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 19 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 20 | Would it be feasible , I asked myself , to fill what for some time I had thought was a serious gap in British military history , namely a socio-military chronicle of the last hundred years of the army 's mounted arm ? |
| 21 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 22 | For some time he had ignored rumours to that effect but now , he told reporters , he was " immensely pleased " . |
| 23 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 24 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 25 | At the end of that time she had learned that Amy was married to an Anglican priest and felt herself trapped and manipulated in a relationship in which she was the inferior partner . |
| 26 | For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion … |
| 27 | Like that time he 'd taken her to Dublin , one blustery day in February of 1821 . |
| 28 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 29 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 30 | In that time we had won 3 and drawn 2 . |