Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 2 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 3 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 4 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |
| 5 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 6 | We splashed and laughed and played together for a long time , sharing their delight at looking underwater through a diving mask for the first time . |
| 7 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 8 | Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period . |
| 9 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 10 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 11 | At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time . |
| 12 | She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs |
| 13 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 14 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 15 | On Oct. 25-27 the African National Congress ( ANC ) and the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC — which had split from the ANC in 1959 — see p. 17449 ) , acted together for the first time since 1960 to become part of the Patriotic Front , an initiative launched to create a united front in negotiations with the Pretoria government . |
| 16 | Helen , with the baby only two weeks away , was very large indeed , but not too large for me to get my arms around her , and we stood there in the middle of the flagged floor clasped together for a long time with neither of us saying much . |
| 17 | It was The Association of Women Artists and Friends of Art in Berlin , an association of women artists , who banded together for the first time on 13 January , 1867 , to overcome some of the structural obstacles to women artists . |
| 18 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 19 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 20 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 21 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 22 | Masonry developed traditionally at the same time as Norman England , but most of the buildings have been altered . |
| 23 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 24 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 25 | She realised now for the first time that she had left her purse behind in Edward 's room . |
| 26 | By Luke 's own admission he saw her as shallow , someone interested only in a good time and a string of boyfriends . |
| 27 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 28 | John Major shaved carefully for the second time that day . |
| 29 | Its mouth curled upwards for the first time . |
| 30 | And as the afternoon wore on , she relaxed and talked freely for the first time in weeks . |