Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
2 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
3 | David O'Leary had another reason for the lack of flair : ‘ Once it went to extra time everyone was afraid to make a mistake . |
4 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
5 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
6 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
7 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
8 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
9 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
10 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |