Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 2 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 3 | MITCHELL PLATTS is golf correspondent for The Times . |
| 4 | Frank Giles , then Rome correspondent for The Times , says that though technically below Monsignor Domenico Tardini in rank , Giles was advised to take sandwiches . |
| 5 | JANE MACQUITTY has been writing about wine since 1975 and is wine correspondent for The Times . |
| 6 | For health reasons she returned to England in 1883 , but her husband 's appointment in 1886 as Italian and Greek correspondent for The Times drew her back to Italy , where she lived in Rome until 1897 . |
| 7 | Among his publications , the most influential was A Reasonable Faith : Short Religious Essays for the Times ( 1844 ) . |
| 8 | Mrs Dawson praised Sarah for the times she has popped in to see if she could help . |
| 9 | This was for £208 : 35. : 0d. ( a considerable sum of money for the times ) yet all of this was restituted by the end of 1633 suggesting , if nothing else , a degree of integrity . |
| 10 | This was a case of Gentlemen versus Players in the golden age when such distinctions still applied and when it was obvious to anyone with an eighth of an intelligence that no paid journeyman could ever begin to compare with the rapier-like ‘ amateurs ’ who flitted with effortless superiority , solving one crime after another with a brilliant insouciance which was the dismay of the criminal fraternity , the envy of the constabulary , and a source of immense satisfaction to most of the upper middle class , especially those with an aptitude for the Times crossword . |
| 11 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 12 | Edith Durham sought to redress the balance in dispatches for The Times and the Manchester Guardian and through indefatigable lobbying in Whitehall and elsewhere . |
| 13 | He taught me a great deal about The Times crossword , and I taught him how to swear . |
| 14 | I witnessed this phenomenon in tragically symbolic form several months after The Times had published my series . |
| 15 | The irony is that in striving to perpetuate a certain mythology about his own prescience and consistency , about France 's fundamental unity , and about the mediocrity of the times in comparison with the exalted hours of the war and the liberation , de Gaulle actually masked one of the great achievements , perhaps the greatest achievement , of his political career . |
| 16 | During the First World War , Turkish bureaucracy and a locust plague produced a famine in Lebanon of such proportions that an American woman resident in Beirut was moved to describe for readers of The Times how she : |
| 17 | He probably has no serious rival on either side of the Atlantic , though to a much smaller audience of discriminating parents the English psychoanalyst , the late D. W. Winnicott , speaks ( 1964 ) with a similar skill ( as does Dr Hugh Jolly to readers of The Times ) . |
| 18 | On the day that the last of the articles appeared , the Zionist Federation staged a demonstration outside the London offices of The Times , some of their supporters holding placards which announced that the paper was ‘ a new Arab secret weapon ’ and that the PLO would be the next owner of The Times . |
| 19 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 20 | Alternative information services were another obsession of the times , hence John Hopkins 's Bit . |
| 21 | The long , sometimes violent , dispute with the print unions over the relocation of The Times plant at Wapping marked a notable step both in the new financial and technological independence of the press and its ideological separateness from the union-corporate approach of the past . |
| 22 | [ Dartford Chronicle , 12 February 1870 ; The Paper Mills Directory , 1859 onwards ; T. H. Saunders , Illustrations of the British Paper Manufacture , 1855 ; management letter-books of The Times , Times archives . ] |
| 23 | But looked at in its full historical perspective , Karajan 's career from 1929 to 1949 was as subject to trauma , disruption , and the vagaries of the times as the next man 's . |
| 24 | But his shortcomings ( of which he was engagingly aware ) reflected those very traits of character which made him , in the words of The Times obituary , a great public servant and a most lovable man . |
| 25 | Mr Griffiths is the music critic of the Times and has written several books on music , including a study of Olivier Messiaen . |
| 26 | Swimming defiantly against the tides of the times , Moonshake place much emphasis on their lyrics and thus run the risk of being seen as old-fashioned . |
| 27 | It 's the crime of the times , he told himself , the ‘ Sixties Crime ’ , murder for pleasure . |
| 28 | Nevertheless the Forest fell into the background of national history : there are infrequent glimpses of how it was affected by the general lawlessness and violence of the times . |
| 29 | Out of rock came a stance of the rock concert rebel , where the crises and contradictions of the times could be played out as theatre . |
| 30 | The success of any such endeavour rests in how effectively it captures the essence of the times ; Storia overall has a distinct 80s feel to it . |