Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Frank Johnson commented in The Times , my appearance on the short walk between the Grand Hotel and the conference centre provoked uproar from the watching demonstrators . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont said in The Times that he was forced to leave a meeting with Jacques Delors in Brussels last Friday ‘ to answer questions about whether I had bought a bottle of wine in Paddington ’ . |
| 3 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 4 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 5 | In 1968 Brian MacArthur suggested in The Times that of the two major educational developments under the Wilson government since 1964 the movement towards a national system of comprehensive education had received most attention : ‘ yet the development of the polytechnics , some of which will start with around 5000 students , is potentially the more revolutionary ’ . |
| 6 | The following morning a photograph of a dejected-looking Lord Ferrers appeared in The Times , brows furrowed , mouth glum as a basset hound . |
| 7 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |