Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 2 | But he failed to persevere with his invention ; nor was the era of relatively abundant labour supply and of machine-breaking propitious for its development , whereas McCormick perfected his reaper at a time favourable to its adoption by farmers in North America and Europe . |
| 3 | Perhaps she reserves her fondest memories for Sergeant Barry Mannakee who became her bodyguard at a time when she felt lost and alone in the royal world . |
| 4 | In an unprecedented outburst , TV presenter Selina Scott vented her spleen in The Times , saying most of the articles written about her were either ‘ guff ’ or ‘ venomous ’ . |
| 5 | Their political passivity about these communal services ca n't be understood without taking into account the benefit of keeping it all in the family — for men it secured their surveillance over the time and labour of women . |
| 6 | In the story I have just told , I explain how self-image dominated my life for a time . |
| 7 | Gifford dated his success from the time he started to use it ; he signed his pictures with Winsor blue and a dab of the pure colour occurs somewhere in them , a sort of trademark . ’ |
| 8 | The pilots were not sorry to go ; Doug Whitney entered in his logbook of the flight out : ‘ The finest sight of Malta I 've seen … ’ which , he adds , no doubt expressed his feelings at the time . |
| 9 | The reader who signed his letter to The Times in February 1869 , ‘ J.W. ’ , offered a word of warning . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper , let alone desirable in a butler . |
| 11 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 12 | The book helped him and satisfied his mind for the time . |
| 13 | The General Sir John French commemorative of 1916 , which the Rose and Crown Hotel in Selby offered its customers at the time , is captioned ‘ Souvenir of the Greatest War in History ’ . |
| 14 | He gave me 50p at a time for my fares and lunch . |
| 15 | Yeah sometimes when Rosemary was here , we did n't have any bother or anything but now and again somebody , she did their hair at the time |
| 16 | One of the requirements of that particular council guides to the Chief Officers was that , they should bring before the councils a statement that Treasury Management policy and arrangements and that , in fact , was done in the autumn of ninety-two , and the council adopted a particular statement which reflected its circumstances at the time , erm , and the then policy . |
| 17 | She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime . |
| 18 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 19 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |