Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you want is to find yourself slim and attractive after a time on an easy , satisfying diet . |
| 2 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 3 | Some of the locks were ready long before the canal which serves them , and were literally high and dry for a time . |
| 4 | Cambridge were left high and dry for a time this afternoon as Oxford followed in the footsteps of many a champion boxer and left the opposition waiting at the official weigh-in . |
| 5 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 6 | The heavily studded oak banister curved down into the darkness of the hall from which the tick of the grandfather clock sounded as unnaturally loud and ominous as a time bomb . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , as I was tellin' the others , I 'll either be fit or dead by the time I get out of here . ’ |
| 8 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 9 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 10 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 11 | ‘ Tradition also means getting massacred every time the Cossacks get restless , and catching cholera and girls married and pregnant from the time they 're fifteen , and a whole bundle of medieval superstitions , and no plumbing , and women doing all the dirty work as usual . |
| 12 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 13 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 14 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 15 | NSAID intake was noted as either intermittent or regular at the time of the first endoscopy only . |
| 16 | The air remained unnaturally hot and humid for the time of the year , and the sun shone down again from the brightening sky . |
| 17 | Acknowledge just how much you have learned from those experiences which may have appeared difficult or unpleasant at the time . |
| 18 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 19 | That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective . |
| 20 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 21 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 22 | ‘ Nice and heavy for the time of year . ’ |
| 23 | This remark , which struck me as silly and offensive at the time , was to be recalled later . |
| 24 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |