Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 2 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 3 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 4 | No , both my sister-in-laws did play at one time for Scottish women 's football . |
| 5 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 6 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 7 | It had not been as he had dreamed at that time with the beloved of his youth : fame and glory , honour and victory . |
| 8 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 9 | Our review of the surveillance programme had three distinct goals : ( a ) to obtain full follow up of all patients who had participated at any time in the surveillance programme ; ( b ) to identify any other patients , who attended the department over this time and who should have been recruited into the surveillance programme ; and ( c ) to identify all cases of colonic carcinoma occurring in association with ulcerative colitis presenting to the department over this period . |
| 10 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 11 | A splinter group of the NPFL , led by Prince Yormie Johnson , had emerged by this time as a separate and important force . |
| 12 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 13 | Plans for the extension of the war in Vietnam had existed for some time in the Pentagon . |
| 14 | The one thing he always refused to consider at any time of financial uncertainty was selling any of his personal shareholding in Virgin . |
| 15 | A few minutes later they had acknowledged Mr Bryant and his daughter outside their house , and then trudged home and stood chatting for some time on the doorstep . |