Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 2 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 3 | She had given birth at a time when she thought miscarriages would be all she ever knew . |
| 4 | If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) . |
| 5 | The victim had become owner at the time of the deception . |
| 6 | The 67 children who had reached maturity at the time of this study tended to have been diagnosed earlier in the decade than those still growing . |
| 7 | Despite the high prevalence of growth impairment , the subset of childen who had reached maturity by the time of the study ( n=67 ) nevertheless maintained their height centile . |
| 8 | This report is about 174 children ≤4 years of age with idiopathic chronic constipation who were 6 years and older and had entered school at the time of follow up in May 1991 . |
| 9 | The magazine had started publication at a time when the work of Lewis , Joyce , Pound and Eliot himself was actively challenging the old standards and values of English literary culture . |
| 10 | Over the years , as a young detective he had lost weight at a time when a lot of men put it on , and now looked thin and wiry , reproducing in himself , as he half knew , the family look . |
| 11 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 12 | On Feb. 20 , 1990 , the MRG and the Association of Democrats ( Association des démocrates — a heterogeneous grouping of leading centrist personalities from which the left sought to gain support at the time of the 1988 presidential elections ) announced the conclusion of an agreement aiming to develop " the second force within the presidential majority " . |