Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 2 | I agree it 's hard to distinguish between our footprints but this stain , this wetness , shows someone stood here for some time , their cloak and boots heavy with snow . |
| 3 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |
| 4 | Many traders , dockers and railwaymen came into these towns which grew rapidly at this time . |
| 5 | William Formston was a tenant at Marton in 1529 ; by the seventeenth century there were five branches in various parts of the parish , one of which continued there till Victorian times . |
| 6 | Over the farmhouse door is a date stone , 1712 , referring to Roger and Isabella Taylor , who lived there at that time . |
| 7 | The question wanted to know who lived there in Roman times . |
| 8 | Are you aware that you eat differently at certain times of the month and perhaps even crave sweet food when your period arrives ? |
| 9 | Did she stay here at that time ? |
| 10 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 11 | What are you doing here at this time ? |
| 12 | ‘ What on earth are you doing here at this time of the morning ? ’ she demanded sleepily . |
| 13 | ‘ What on earth are you doing home at this time ? ’ she demanded . |
| 14 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 15 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 16 | A visit before the interview can also act as a dummy run to help you get there in good time on the day itself . |
| 17 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 18 | She stayed there for some time , the heavy depression that had been weighing her down ever since Marianne had appeared in her room soothed a little by the gentle singing of the river . |
| 19 | Children who perform differently at different times of day may be reacting to a changed quantity or quality of lighting level . |
| 20 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 21 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 22 | ‘ In times of emergency we behave differently from normal times , ’ says Meir Edlestein , the director of the Mevasseret absorption centre . |
| 23 | This was indeed what was sought by the IS team in the first place , and was a concept to which they clung tenaciously for some time . |
| 24 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 25 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 26 | They chatted quietly about old times — and daring for the first time to talk about the future . |
| 27 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 28 | ‘ He came home after closing time . |
| 29 | Away from the panic , the waiting , the torn-up schedules , hell , it seemed almost like old times , almost normal . |
| 30 | Because it forms slowly over geological time in the Cretaceous chalk , minute amounts of clay dispersed in the chalk are incorporated within the flint . |