Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say she has to take life as quietly as possible for some time if she is to regain her health and everyone will be pleased to know she is making good progress along these lines . |
| 2 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 3 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 4 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 5 | She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books . |
| 6 | It 's proving to be a strain , both financially and physically — since we are doing as much of the work ourselves as possible — and our friends were convinced for some time that we had gone mad ! |
| 7 | Of course he 's not been well for some time and he did n't take care of himself . ’ |
| 8 | In announcing his decision , Thornburgh suggested that his resignation would not become effective until such time as he was formally selected as the Republican party 's official candidate . |
| 9 | The modules remain online until such time that they are requested to be offlined again , at which time they are simply deleted from online storage . |
| 10 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 11 | I was confident by this time that I was safe , despite retaining my poor showing at school , but I was in a new trade — Metal Rigger — and was , by result , as good as most . |
| 12 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 13 | Clubs were cancelling mid-week bookings due to short time and I had to travel farther afield to find work . |
| 14 | Those officers were especially selected from erm the firearms officers we had available at that time and they were responsible for all firearms operations within the county . |
| 15 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 16 | He was right at that time because he was , shall we say , " in season " , an exceptional pilot . |
| 17 | And it gave lots and lots of work to our colleagues and you know , when , when I say that er I think I made a comment that at that time , er had made the , the , the comment about er the winds of change and that er you know we were never better off , well really the unemployment figures were so low at that time that it 's to my mind you know , a truism . |
| 18 | The DC can be updated as many times as necessary until such time as it is submitted for assessment . |
| 19 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 20 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 21 | Now what did you think about this lesson was it a bit boring at some time or you think , Oh or did it go too quickly No . |
| 22 | That was ready for next time and you 've saved |
| 23 | They were silent for some time as they picked their way in single file along the path that wound up the hillside . |
| 24 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for . |