Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , we stopped there for some time and nothing happened and me dad says Gil ! |
| 2 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 3 | MacDonald equalised just before half time and added three more in the second half . |
| 4 | When the rest of the crowd turned out at closing time and headed for the Floral Gardens with their carry-outs , Tich bedded down for the night in the public lavatory on the other side of the railway bridge . |
| 5 | Given the geographic spread of the ‘ contestants ’ it was not surprising that the packages arrived back at varying times but outlying areas such as Newcastle , Liverpool and Bristol were not obviously handicapped . |
| 6 | The first written evidence of its existence as Siglestorne was in the Domesday Book , although recent archaeological excavations on Spring Field revealed the existence of a previous settlement which dated back to Roman times or earlier . |
| 7 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 8 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 9 | Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on . |
| 10 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |
| 11 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 12 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 13 | The three men stood together for some time while the long-faced sheep ambled around them , sometimes coming close to examine them but scuttering away at the slightest of their movements , sending a ripple of bells through the whole flock . |
| 14 | I do not mean the church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity , terrible as an army with banners . |
| 15 | I stayed there for some time and looked at the castle , and then I walked on through the forest for about an hour . |