Example sentences of "[prep] the times [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lysates were precleared with normal rabbit serum and equal amounts incubated at 37°C for the times indicated . |
| 2 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I witnessed this phenomenon in tragically symbolic form several months after The Times had published my series . |
| 5 | A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony ’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made ’ . |
| 6 | Another aspect of the times had made its debut . |
| 7 | Her every move had been followed by jaundiced and world-weary senior politicians ; she had noticed a gleam of lust in the good eye of a privy Councillor , and Peter Riddell of The Times had made a note of her name . |
| 8 | Peter Riddell of The Times had written a piece about the Young Conservatives . |
| 9 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 10 | As a September 1958 edition of The Times pointed out , Black people ‘ are charged with all kinds of misbehaviour , especially sexual ’ . |
| 11 | You and I and the editor of the Times Lit . |
| 12 | Signs of the times appeared in a number of different places . |
| 13 | Anthony Bevins 's account in The Times continued , ‘ Mr Heseltine 's friends said last night that ad hoc meetings were a Downing Street device to kill internal Cabinet dissent . |
| 14 | An article in The Times carried the heading " Yuppies oust the hippies of yesteryear " .8 This offers a good example of a test developed by Newman who called it " Chronic vigour " .9 This is not , however , to be understood as " whatever is old is good " . |
| 15 | There was lots of time before he was due to meet Amaranth Wilikins for lunch at the Black Chapati , ‘ where English eccentricity adopts oriental exoticism to produce something special ’ , or so Jonathan Meades in The Times had said . |
| 16 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 17 | The obituary in The Times said that while he was known as the ‘ chief engineer of a great ecclesiastical machine ’ , to his friends he was a ‘ most kindly man ’ . |
| 18 | Yet another leading article in The Times drew attention to other countries , notably Germany and Italy , which were adopting pro-natalist policies with a small measure of success . |
| 19 | Robin Lee in The Times maintained that both books were beneath criticism , Faludi 's for using the ‘ low-brow , flirtatious idiom of Cosmopolitan magazine ’ , French 's for being ‘ aggressive and intemperate ’ . |
| 20 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |
| 21 | Mori in the Times gave Labour a one-point lead . |
| 22 | Yesterday 's leader article on Austria in The Times concluded : ’ The Community must itself look east and rebuild by free trade those shattered economies if the migration on which far-right reaction feeds is to be stemmed ’ . |
| 23 | As the first turfs for Hinkley A power station were being dug in early 1958 , an unnamed correspondent in The Times reported how a stretch of countryside that had inspired Wordsworth and Coleridge 150 years before was about to savour the fruits of ‘ the atom age ’ : |
| 24 | While at the end of 1985 there were fears that the price of crude would drop as far as $15 , by the end of July 1986 a leading article in The Times reported that Brent crude stood at ‘ a paltry nine dollars a barrel ’ . |
| 25 | A leader in The Times commented : |
| 26 | Now , as a letter to the Times pointed out last week , the word ‘ train ’ is being replaced by ‘ service ’ — as in ‘ Please do not open the doors until the service has come to a complete standstill . ’ |