Example sentences of "[prep] the times [adv] " 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 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 3 | That might help undo memories of living in or around Lucca in a displaced persons ' camp when they left Trieste ; a little cosseted security makes up for the times when there were seventeen families in one room . |
| 4 | We thank you for the times when it moves us to be in your presence together . |
| 5 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 6 | But he could be ready for anything ; for the churches which had abandoned him ; for the churches like the Philippian one which had continued to care ; for hunger ; for plenty ; for the times when he had no obvious human support , and for the times when his fellow believers came and gave him encouragement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A VERY important part of the Urgent Action technique is the Worldwide Accelerated Response Network ( WARN ) , which allows Amnesty International to initiate immediate appeals during the times when the Urgent Action network is not accessible — late at night , or at weekends . |
| 9 | What lies behind these conceptions of content and object is the true idea that the nature of consciousness itself may not be different at all between the times when we think truly and when we think falsely , or when we want what exists and when we want what does not exist . |
| 10 | Rachel was undeniably wonderful with the baby ; and took such joy from having Maggie with her that it was impossible for even Phoebe to feel much guilt about the times when she was free . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Carolyn was cautious about the times when she came downstairs . |
| 13 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 14 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 15 | On the very day that the Garotter 's Act became law , the essential distinction between right and wrong faltered appreciably in the pages of The Times where a disturbance was noted at Cremorne Gardens which had resulted in some upper-class rowdies being heavily fined . |
| 16 | Thomson recreates the Australian Fifties with more than a cursory skill and catches the censorious , more petit bourgeois than the English tone of the times well enough to convince . |
| 17 | Bonhoeffer returned to Germany , but found himself in conflict with the mood of the times when identified with Hitler 's arrogance and brutality . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , by 1800 a commoner was speaking with regret of the times when the undrained wastes had given him pasture , where ‘ he could turn out his cow and pony , feed his flock of geese and keep his pig ’ . |
| 19 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 20 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 21 | Jot down a timetable of the times when you ought to stop answering each question . |
| 22 | Do you know any others erm tell you about erm you know some of the some of the times when you 've been affected by crime . |
| 23 | I say all , but really it is a sign of the times when only 30% of an amateur team are committed amateurs . |
| 24 | Of the times when you 're around , |
| 25 | I want this one to be one of the times when it 's not . ’ |
| 26 | but one of the times when we were not chatty , but talked , she said how naughty he 'd got , but I mean she 's never with him |
| 27 | Now this is one of those interesting incidents because it was one of the times when he tells the disciples off . |
| 28 | The personal column of The Times once carried the following advertisement , ‘ Statue required , size approximately four-feet-seven-inches to five feet , reproduction of Michelangelo 's David , without fig leaf . ’ |
| 29 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 30 | 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 : |