Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father disapproved of alcohol at any time , but to enter a public house on the Sabbath was completely unthinkable . |
| 2 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 3 | They drove in silence for some time , before Pam spoke . |
| 4 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 5 | I thought , oh dear , so we got to bed by this time , and we lay , and we just could n't get to sleep for the noise the tent was making . |
| 6 | The teaching profession grew in strength at this time , developing a formal system of training to replace the nineteenth-century pupil teacher system . |
| 7 | The two men travelled in silence for some time . |
| 8 | The two men sat in silence for some time , each in his own thoughts . |