Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he asked us to pray to be forgiven for the times when we had misused our authority . |
| 2 | In Unforgiven — a brilliant but never-clarified title — Bill Munny , Eastwood 's screen character , is quizzed about the times when he was the most feared gun in the West , irresistibly evoking memories of the Man With No Name 's six-shooter holocausts in Sergio Leone 's Dollars trilogy ( A Fistful Of Dollars , For A Few Dollars More and The Good , The Bad And The Ugly ) and the mellower but still genocidal guerilla of The Outlaw Josey Wales . |
| 3 | Born in Hamburg , he was transferred to the Manor House at Amnersfield , the son of a remote German-American mother and of a sour , withdrawn , irritable Anglo-Scottish father , who would retreat behind the Times and spend the evening in lonely state , smoking his pipe in his kilt . |
| 4 | In the new context , these were quite out of keeping with the times , for the poor had to change as well as everyone else . |
| 5 | Hence , great pastor , preacher , and luminous expounder of the faith though he was , and moderate though his views were on most matters concerning the relations between the Church and secular society , his most cherished views were all doomed to failure from the start : they neither moved with the times , nor stood firm in the practical conveniences of the past . |
| 6 | Mrs has got to work with the times has n't she ? |
| 7 | Mr John Constable , the painter 's great great grandson , protested in The Times : ‘ Believe me , rape is what we 're talking about . ’ |
| 8 | In 1913 a Mr R. Lydekker , Fellow of the Royal Society , claimed in The Times that he and his gardener had heard a cuckoo on February 6 in Hertfordshire : ‘ There is not the slightest doubt . ’ |
| 9 | It was reported in the Times Educational Supplement that Ferndale Comprehensive School in Mid-Glamorgan issued all of its first year pupils with free uniform and sports clothing . |
| 10 | In 1985 , as reported in The Times , the cost of simply storing the United Kingdom 's cereal surplus amounted to around £111 million . |
| 11 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 12 | At the time of argument before the Board only an abbreviated account of the judgment , reported in The Times , 16 April 1992 , was available for consideration . |
| 13 | Sir John Donaldson , President of the National Industrial Relations Court , in Midland Cold Storage Ltd v. Turner and Others , as reported in The Times , 28 July 1972 . |
| 14 | McNeill , J. in R. v. Greater London Council ex parte Kensington and Chelsea LBC dismissing an application for judicial review of a precept issued by the GLC , as reported in The Times , 7 April 1982 . |
| 15 | It was reported in The Times of 6th March 1975 that Mr Toffrey Reeves , a surveyor for the National House Owners Association , which is a cut-price conveyancing group operating in England , was ordered in the High Court on 5th March to pay £3,000 damages to a client for failing to detect structural defects in the house he bought . |
| 16 | The attention of members is drawn to the decision of the Divisional Court of Appeal in the case of Rowe & Maw v Commissioners of Customs and Excise decided on 6th March , and reported in The Times of 8th March . |
| 17 | The decision had just been reported in the Times . |
| 18 | As reported in The Times on 4 April , Bush called for forces within Iraq to unseat Saddam , anticipating a military coup mounted by disaffected generals . |
| 19 | Ten per cent suggested that the use of black and white film meant the film-maker could not afford colour ! ( results reported in The Times , 14 October 1991 ) . |
| 20 | This is because of the recent case of Lord v Tustain , reported in The Times . |
| 21 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 22 | A little later she indicates that I am partially returned to favour when I plan to write to The Times condemning the industrial action that was taken by the consultants : ‘ If he really produces this letter to The Times I shall begin to have some faith in him . ’ |
| 23 | Professor von Hayek , a luminary much admired by the Prime Minister , writes to The Times suggesting that if attacks are made against the forces in the Falklands , Britain should retaliate on the Argentine mainland . |
| 24 | Among the other problems encountered was its failure to attract the scale of advertising enjoyed by the Times . |
| 25 | Is not that in marked contrast to the events of 25 years ago this very day , as reported by The Times , when the then Economic Affairs Minister warned the Confederation of British Industry that if it breached the inflation-wage restraint , there would be a prices and incomes policy ? |
| 26 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 27 | One unusual communications medium employed on the battlefield was reported by The Times . |
| 28 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 29 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 30 | Publicity accelerated as the Times Beach residents scattered , and government technicians moved in late last year . |