Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 , Henry Kissinger got the prize at the time he was implicated in the blanket bombing of Cambodia . |
| 2 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 3 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 4 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 5 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 6 | Like most rulers in the Dark Ages and the later Medieval and Renaissance periods , Charles paid attention to the patterns of the stars and planets ; he studied the astronomy of the time , which was unified with astrology and philosophy based upon the Four Elements ( Air , Fire , Water , Earth ) . |
| 7 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 8 | He could n't have been unconscious for long , looking back , but it seemed an eternity at the time . |
| 9 | The language belonged to a forthright , dogmatic man , but it captured the spirit of the time : confidence , determination , a radical zeal for rebuilding . |
| 10 | Societies deducted the interest at the time so never paid the full amount of the loan , which greatly enhanced their profits . |
| 11 | ‘ I paid no heed at the time , but when things broke the way they did , I thought about it again . |
| 12 | I recall that I generously made no charge for the time involved in this interview ! |
| 13 | I made no protest at the time , though people asked me to , because I said ‘ there 's nothing worse than arguing against a foolish argument . |
| 14 | Though the inspector made no note of the time nor the wavelength of the broadcast , he remembered its contents . |
| 15 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 16 | She took out her diary and made a note of the time of the meeting . |
| 17 | Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit . |
| 18 | She thought about her fiancé Jonathan , Jonathan Whalley , who worked intermittently in his father 's firm and spent the rest of the time playing hard . |
| 19 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 20 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 21 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 22 | Our John spent the rest of the time . |
| 23 | Founded by Muz Murray , who was featured on the first issue 's cover breaking out of an egg , Gandalf 's Garden distilled the essence of the time 's peace , love , mysticism , and delusion . |
| 24 | He adds that ‘ There is little doubt that here existed a town in the time of the Britons ’ and a settlement grew around the Druidic university which according to Peck was the ancient British city of Doorebriff , meaning ‘ sharp stream ’ . |
| 25 | On a door lintel at Hill there is an inscription , ‘ J.D. — B.G.1692 ’ , which followed a custom of the time and probably commemorated the date of their wedding or betrothal . |
| 26 | This run of Tory election victories over the 1950s prompted the speculation at the time that the Tories had managed to establish themselves as the ‘ natural party of government ’ . |
| 27 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 28 | But although the case , and particularly the sentence , shocked the public at the time it was soon forgotten . |
| 29 | Bruce Dern said Corman did him and Nicholson a favour by getting them a part because they both needed the money at the time ; Corman arranged it so that their shooting schedules would require them to be available for the first and last weeks of the four-week stint , thus , under union rules guaranteeing them a salary cheque for the full four weeks . |
| 30 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |