Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] time [coord] " in BNC.

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1 Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . "
2 I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire .
3 After all , they removed it from the custody of its owner and , prima facie , they should bear the responsibility for any damage which occurs between that time and the owner getting it back .
4 Eight miles away you can visit the magnificent Arundel Castle , which originated in Norman times and was rebuilt by the Duke of Norfolk in the 1870s .
5 The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow .
6 And course , they had , with us you know at one time and now they 've got that holiday again now , so I mean none of them would of been cheap when they did it .
7 However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns .
8 However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns .
9 However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns .
10 He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his .
11 Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in .
12 We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " .
13 across a lot of papers but in this paper it starts er and as Mr just said it starts as far as incr increments , erm do we know at this time or can we be informed as soon as were informed , where of what , whether implement are erm , like , are restricted by the , the Chancellor 's statement , do we know or , are have we got ta wait ?
14 We talked of old times and what might happen in the future . ’
15 The only other thing to do is , is do what er er , we did at one time and just get a bright beer and open it up and er , and then pull it .
16 The only difference is ‘ that whereas some one finite and narrow assemblage of ideas denotes a particular human mind , whithersoever we direct our view , we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ .
17 Despite Berkeley 's claim that ‘ we do at all times and in all places perceive manifest tokens of the divinity ’ , the important place occupied by God in his philosophy will inevitably seem as far removed from immediate experience as the material world of seventeenth-century philosophy seemed to Berkeley .
18 We move in anapaestic time and pause ,
19 On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ .
20 We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places .
21 it 's only last night , I did n't know if you could hear , it come on three times and they were nobody there !
22 The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity .
23 In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled .
24 precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme
25 The only difference is , that erm if you return to work in a part time capacity , and it amounts to half time or more , then you will subsequently be asked to undergo a medical examination .
26 But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place .
27 The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted .
28 All of us have at one time or another contributed to the Great Bores of Today , with our moans of the other night when we sat down to watch television and ‘ there was nothing on ’ .
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