Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would I be away at any time , when was ill or needed his mummy ? |
| 2 | I 'm here for some time , not forever . |
| 3 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 4 | You 're away in half time . |
| 5 | ‘ You were there until closing time ? ’ |
| 6 | It meant they were here for some time . |
| 7 | Great Britain and Germany were only alike in one respect ; they were both at that time contented powers . |
| 8 | You said children would receive it if they were still in full time education , higher education |
| 9 | I thought well it 's there for next time . |
| 10 | It is only in the last thirty-five years that animals had been allowed to have ‘ mental ’ processes other than learning and so it is only in that time that psychologists have developed the behavioural tests to investigate them . |
| 11 | He 's already on borrowed time . |
| 12 | He 's away for some time . |
| 13 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 14 | It was generally at this time that the user began to think about ‘ coming off ’ and the , usually long , association with the various medical and social agencies began . |
| 15 | It was also at this time that Elizabeth was first invited to a ‘ very simple luncheon ’ at Braemar Mansions . |
| 16 | Suspicions were easily aroused , for it was also at this time that Britain announced its desire to reduce the number of its troops stationed in West Germany under the WEU agreement , as part of its switch to a nuclear-based defence . |
| 17 | It was also at this time that the Hwicce ( and possibly other border peoples such as the Magonsaete and Wreocensaete ) were brought more completely under Mercian control . |
| 18 | It was also at this time that there occurred the " inversion " of Voigt 's Randtroge or marginal troughs in northern , extra-Alpine Europe . |
| 19 | And it was also at this time , erm partly under the influence of war , partly no doubt under the influence of Freud , he began to become very much more conscious of the ugly , destructive patterns of unconscious motivation , which underlie the decorous surface of civilized life . |
| 20 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately it was just at this time that Tyndale 's unfavourable comments on the royal divorce came to the King 's attention , and Vaughan was sharply told to end the discussions . |
| 22 | It was just before closing time when a girl dropped an envelope in my lap . |
| 23 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 24 | It was probably at some time during that same period when the dawning need to rely on a ‘ god ‘ first disturbed the developing human being , that he started to enjoy pleasures which were not the result of simply satisfying the desires associated with his physical evolution . |
| 25 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 26 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 27 | It was precisely at this time that the Chinese were having to obtain supplies as tribute or by way of trade from the southernmost provinces of the empire or from Java and Sumatra . |
| 28 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 29 | It was roughly at this time that the Clean-up TV Campaign was launched . |
| 30 | Er , he was indeed for some time the er secretary of the er er divisional Labour party . |