Example sentences of "[adj] time [pron] [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 2 | This time we hope to stimulate a reaction from you all by saying ‘ NO MEDAU MAGAZINE IN 1979/80 ’ . |
| 3 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 4 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This time I want to put a sound effect in — a WAV file , which is a sampled sound . |
| 7 | By this time he had published a major treatise on violin technique , and had fathered seven children , of whom only two , a daughter and a son , survived . |
| 8 | The boy 's run up was limited by the ditch behind , but this time he managed to plant a foot on the wall and grab the Corporal . |
| 9 | This time she did get a response . |
| 10 | ‘ High time someone started asking a few awkward questions , ’ says his neighbour , who turns out to be an expert in Moral Law . |
| 11 | For some time she had felt a curious weightiness , then sudden relief . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another time he had seen a tourist , a non-English speaker , make the discovery that his wallet had been taken , with his passport and everything he had . |
| 15 | Norwich manager Dave Stringer said : ‘ This is the second time I 've lost a semi-final and it does n't get any easier to accept . |
| 16 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 17 | For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time . |
| 18 | Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes . |
| 19 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 20 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 21 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 22 | Its first public letter to the Scotsman referred to " clerical work " or supervisory jobs as being the best area to concentrate on , but within a short time it had established a register for women 's employment of a wider kind . |
| 23 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |
| 24 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 25 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 26 | At one time he intended to become a Catholic and even at one stage a priest . |
| 27 | ‘ This is the first time we 've issued a warning because of violence on the highway , ’ an American AA spokesman said . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've had a patient like this , ’ said Nurse Jean-Claude Auge yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've had a patient like this , ’ Nurse Jean-Claude Auge said yesterday . |
| 30 | This is the first time we 've had a regular monthly feature in the magazine just for Silver electronics . |