Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 2 | It was a landscape which Coleridge probably knew well by the time of his autumn visit , and to whose spectacular beauty he was to introduce the Wordsworths before the year ended . |
| 3 | Mr Mazowiecki also said pointedly at the time that he was not prepared to replace one philosophically biased government ( a communist one ) with another philosophically biased government ( an avowedly Catholic one ) . |
| 4 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 5 | ‘ You never said so at the time , ’ she mutters . |
| 6 | She might never have ironed shirts , but she too had once upon a time brought Jacob little surprises , little presents . |