Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was gone before closing time — the vicar 'll tell you where I was . |
| 2 | Keith Nunn , manager , Seismic Quality , XFI , describes it as ‘ similar in many respects ’ to XFI 's first 3D survey in block 6 which was completed in record-breaking time in May ( see Technology centre spread ) . |
| 3 | In mathematics he was clearly one year ahead , and was immediately awarded a Founder 's scholarship and two small exhibitions — and this at St John 's College which was noted at this time for its academic distinction . |
| 4 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 5 | ‘ I have had a letter from Maureen in which she says Niazy has written to her , telling her she was involved at that time and while he is in prison , she will stay in prison . |
| 6 | The hours she was working , she was left with little time for popping across the corridor for coffee and a chat , let alone for socialising . |
| 7 | It was chaired at one time by Peter Wright , author of Spycatcher . |
| 8 | It was accepted at this time that if you had talent you could sponge and exploit , as Colquhoun and MacBryde did when they abused Elizabeth Smart 's hospitality at Tilty Mill , a house belonging to Ruthven Todd and where they created havoc . |
| 9 | And even if a structural , timber can be dated , there is always the possibility that it was stored for some time between being felled and being used , or even that it was re-used timber salvaged from an earlier building . |
| 10 | He took the view that her consent alone could not be retracted since it was given for all time as part of the contract of marriage . |
| 11 | It was noted at that time that there were low level information technology utilisation in the departments , consequently the cost of implementation would be a major factor when considering the design of either system . |
| 12 | Despite later Communist acceptance of this policy it was rejected at this time by William Rust for the Party . |
| 13 | It was forbidden at that time to bring wildlife to school . |
| 14 | It does not matter , she had thought , numbly , for whatever it was and whatever it has been , it was forbidden for all time . |
| 15 | There is only one ‘ edition ’ of The Fairy Queen , which was issued first in 1692 — in May , when the show opened ( this is clear from Tonson 's advertisement in The London Gazette ) ; it was re-issued at some time in 1693 , with the modifications already described — a new title-page , a new Act 1 , and two new songs on single-leaf inserts later in the book . |
| 16 | It was thought at one time that a Mareva injunction was a remedy only available against foreign defendants , perhaps because the risk of assets being removed was usually greater and more obvious in such cases . |
| 17 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 18 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 19 | He began life as a commercial photographer and worked for Renault , but he was sacked for bad time keeping after late nights in the darkroom . |