Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | so erm er th the thought , the thought did occur to me that perhaps one of these times he 's gon na actually go beyond just like talking , and perhaps touching somebody . |
2 | It wanted to be seen as an honorary member of the developed world experiencing the sort of hard times you might expect in a country with the world 's biggest foreign debt , $115 billion . |
3 | ‘ And one of those times I must have crossed into someone else 's territory . ’ |
4 | Between these times it shows either a slight rise or a general plateau ( tests of Groups 1 , 2 and 6 ) or a slight decline after a peak at about noon ( Groups 3 , 5 and 7 ) . |
5 | This is one that 's been , I 've had appointment and for three times I 'd had to cancel it . |
6 | But you see er you know you 'd got to do that so in between those times you could n't do much else could you ? |
7 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
8 | I have told you about ten times I have not got a pen . |
9 | For those times it was an environmentally sensitive organisation . |
10 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
11 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
12 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
13 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |
14 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
15 | ‘ In Victorian times they used to be about 35 inches wide ; now they can be as narrow as 30 inches . |
16 | Now in Victorian times they were kept as pets and just like hamsters are today and there are still one or two around that er might just give you that impression but I may be really off the , the level here . |
17 | In Victorian times they were very common , and often found in the nursery . |
18 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
19 | Wherever jade was used in early times it was derived from alluvial sources . |
20 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
21 | In these times it is important to follow things through . |
22 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
23 | In later times it was briefly occupied by Cromwell and by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Rebellion of 1745 . |
24 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
25 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
26 | In post-Vedic times they became : |
27 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
28 | In pre-revolution times it was known as Tsarskoye Selo , which is ‘ Royal Village ’ in Russian . |
29 | The name is somewhat misleading , since in ancient times it seems likely that the division of life into ‘ sacred ’ and ‘ secular ’ had no meaning : the whole of life was considered sacred , as were artistic and other creations . |
30 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |