Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 2 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 3 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 4 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 5 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 6 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 7 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 8 | It reminded her of another time . |
| 9 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |
| 10 | As he said himself of this time , ‘ I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle , an unstructured life ; but a consecrated one ; some kind of calling . ’ |