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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 'd retired by this time .
2	‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes .
3	I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time .
4	Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ .
5	‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’
6	Time was marching on an in order to return to the hotel in Carcassonne I needed to leave in good time .
7	‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me .
8	No , I 've I I did think at one time whether to pass a note , bye !
9	There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process .
10	What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained .
11	Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time .
12	I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day .
13	Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform .
14	I thanked him and switched off rather brusquely , since right then I was more concerned about that evening and might , and what I wanted to do during that time .
15	She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married .
16	But anyway , with her mind , and I understand she did write at one time , she would have made an impression in some quarter or other . ’
17	She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man .
18	His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time .
19	Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted .
20	She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat .
21	Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness .
22	And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk .
23	‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life .
24	She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there .
25	We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school .
26	Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there .
27	We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there .
28	Er I 'm afraid a lot of it had gone by that time .
29	It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else .
30	Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another .