Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 English Electric were not building trams by this time , and the new cars had to be ordered from a railway wagon builder , Roberts of Wakefield .
2 Tallis had not made Moondream at that time — the mask to allow her to see the woman in the land — but she intuitively knew who she had seen , how she had reached through her vision to this very day , perhaps , in her own future .
3 I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view .
4 With help from Wood Green Animal Shelters , Serpell made contact with people who had not had pets for some time but who were now about to get a dog or cat .
5 He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time .
6 It should be noted that following transfer of ownership , the registration of the aircraft often does not take place for some time afterwards .
7 They are said to have explained that they were looking for the conductor to buy their tickets as Stonehouse station did not sell tickets at that time of night .
8 But all the remedial measures will not produce benefits for some time , in the case of remerchandising a year at least .
9 Certainly at about the beginning of late Cretaceous times we have one of the best documented transgressions of all time .
10 Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness .
11 Perhaps , and perhaps contentiously , it was because the general insurrection had not taken place at this time : at least not in the sense that it involved trial by battle .
12 But these problems are not immediately apparent , and so need not inhibit accumulation for some time .
13 and we ’ ll be previewing the grand prix season in four weeks time … now next week the Oxford playhouse stages one of the sporting mismatches of the year … and cast in the unlikely role of trainer or coach is Alan Ayckbourn who after Shakespeare is the most performed playwrite of all time … the name of the game is a production about rowing called One Over the Eight which has been playing to packed houses in Scarborough
14 If the plaintiff fails to give notice of acceptance within the time limited by the rules , he may still give notice at any time before the hearing of the action begins , but an order for payment out of court is then required , and the court may order the plaintiff to pay the defendant 's costs reasonably incurred since the date of payment into court ( Ord 11 , r 5 ) .
15 ‘ We always need money at this time of year .
16 A remarkable change for the worse took place about this time in the hitherto retired neighbourhood of Southall Green .
17 Perhaps it did n't affect Britain at this time .
18 Okay erm this is just I think this is er what we call coincidence or just er unplanned or unpredicted er event or happening one maybe one evening maybe I thought it was Friday evening , one Friday evening December er Mrs was watching television it was erm but normally she did n't watch television at that time , but just coincidence ?
19 Outings , in fact the choir excelled itself that much we were invited to join many others to Crystal Palace , which which well known place at that time and er it was quite exciting .
20 ‘ You do n't get hangovers at this time of night . ’
21 Leeds just could nt keep possession for any time , so were nt building attacks , even the clearances started going out of play .
22 Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new .
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