Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In January 1642 , Charles I foolishly entered the House of Commons seeking to arrest five leading Members of Parliament ( who were not there at the time ) and he received a magnificent rebuke from the Speaker of the House . |
| 2 | The bins were already out by the time Cornelius reached home . |
| 3 | The baby was wholly out by the time she got back with Sister , though in a caul , as if giftwrapped in Clingfilm . |
| 4 | It 's not that he did n't say it , but he was somewhere else at the time , and he just heard the bit of it , he heard the back end of it . |
| 5 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 6 | As the fighting was apparently over by the time he attended the German emperor Conrad II 's imperial coronation in Rome in March 1027 , the most likely year for Holy River therefore seems to be 1026 , or conceivably , if operations were protracted , 1025 . |
| 7 | In private Michael still had to keep his end up against attacks , that to be religious was to be a fool , though less frequently now because Frank travelled abroad and was away much of the time . |
| 8 | I know that the hon. Member for Sherwood ( Mr. Stewart ) was not here at the time , and he will not be with us much longer , but many Members who are present tonight were here then . |
| 9 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 10 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |
| 11 | If it sounds funny now , it was not so at the time . |
| 12 | Mark was out there at the time , so we asked him to help us sort it out . |
| 13 | I mean , would n't know , I would n't know , I was n't here at the time . |
| 14 | I was n't there at the time and I 'm damned if they 're going to top me for your brothers . |
| 15 | But I was n't there at the time . |
| 16 | Although I was n't there at the time , just mention it to those who were and watch their colour change to grey ! |
| 17 | oh no , it was n't there at the time of the Telegraph article was it ? |
| 18 | Oh I was n't there at the time was I ? |
| 19 | The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed . |
| 20 | The train could n't stop in time and he was n't there by the time we had reversed . |
| 21 | Balding shrugged : ‘ I was actually away at the time , but I suspect the ground was n't what we thought it was . |