Example sentences of "[pers pn] in [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen says : ‘ The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 2 | The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 3 | Being a single mum is not very easy and it was important that there was lots of people to contact to encourage you in difficult times . |
| 4 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 5 | And er the reason we took the biggest jug we could find it was n't so much to feed two children in the house you 're parents also wanted a bowl because believe me in those times we were we were hungry , we were dear , very very hungry . |
| 6 | He was a good friend to me in difficult times . |
| 7 | The same missive ( it has characteristic Mr Nice Guy touches like ‘ I hope I have shown that you can trust me in difficult times as well as easier ones ’ ) went to the deputy leader , Coun Bill Dixon . |
| 8 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 9 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 10 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 11 | Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do . |
| 12 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 13 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 14 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 15 | A great deal has been written of the Pilgrims Road and its travellers and its river crossings and I 'm of the opinion that more Pilgrims to Canterbury follow this route now than followed it in Mediaeval times ( howls of protest ) . |
| 16 | If you need parent support in the bad times then you need to encourage and reward it in those times when everything is going well . |
| 17 | PLAYER : ( Acknowledging the description with a sweep of his hat , bowing : sadly ) You should have caught us in better times . |