Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one evening — I must have been 12 or 13 at the time — we were driving back from visiting my nan in Kent . |
| 2 | Twenty per cent of them were aged 7 when first abused , 40% were 12 or 13 at the time . |
| 3 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 4 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 5 | Some of the locks were ready long before the canal which serves them , and were literally high and dry for a time . |
| 6 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 7 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 8 | They go out in covnoys of 10 and 12 at a time and they 'll have no officers or senior NCO 's accompanying them |
| 9 | Everyone was keen to work hard at seeing as much as possible in the time given — including some places not normally open to the public , for which Martin Randall had made special arrangements . |
| 10 | All those who were kind enough to offer me hospitality wanted me to see as much as possible in the time when I was not teaching . |
| 11 | The heavily studded oak banister curved down into the darkness of the hall from which the tick of the grandfather clock sounded as unnaturally loud and ominous as a time bomb . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , as I was tellin' the others , I 'll either be fit or dead by the time I get out of here . ’ |
| 13 | He went bounding up the stairs , three or four at a time , praying to himself the room had n't been taken over by some amorous couple while he 'd been away , cursing himself for doubting her . |
| 14 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 15 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 16 | But they 're frustrated that most of the time , they 're forced to rely on a helping hand . |
| 17 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 18 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 19 | The informants contacted during the snowball sampling procedure were aged between 18 and 32 at the time of interview . |
| 20 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 21 | The Maguire Seven were Anne Maguire and Patrick Maguire ; their sons Vincent Maguire and Patrick Joseph Maguire ( respectively 17 and 14 at the time of their sentencing ) ; Patrick 's brother-in-law Guiseppe Conlon ( Gerard Conlon 's father ) , who died in prison in 1980 ; Anne 's brother Sean Smyth ; and a family friend named Patrick O'Neill . |
| 22 | I HAVE been engaged twice before , but they were only kid 's stuff as I was 17 and 19 at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ Tradition also means getting massacred every time the Cossacks get restless , and catching cholera and girls married and pregnant from the time they 're fifteen , and a whole bundle of medieval superstitions , and no plumbing , and women doing all the dirty work as usual . |
| 24 | The funerals take place each day at eleven ; sometimes as many as fifty at a time . |
| 25 | It sports small yellow flowers en masse , sometimes showing as many as 30 at a time . |
| 26 | Any way that you can think of that will help to get these axes right because most of the time it 's going to be this sort of thing I mean you said , Do you want me to work it you know use the graph or just work it out from this . |
| 27 | ‘ They live in all the other rooms , ten or twelve at a time . ’ |
| 28 | She had never questioned his facts ; he had been ten or twelve at the time and she had confidently assumed that he knew what he was talking about . |
| 29 | I was about ten or eleven at the time , but I had ‘ known ’ since I was about six . |
| 30 | A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom . |