Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] time i [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight .
2 I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record .
3 Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad .
4 And during this time I belonged to Toc H.
5 I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers .
6 And during this time I learned something very important-if you want to be happy , you must be free .
7 And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better .
8 I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people .
9 We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin .
10 And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with .
11 That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war .
12 We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera .
13 When I retired four years ago , I decided I would like to help and encourage other people to paint , and hopefully get as much pleasure form the hobby as I do , and since that time I have been able to meet up with groups of friends and pass on to them the knowledge I have gained through the pages of your magazine .
14 A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material .
15 and at that time I think owned developments and also
16 He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice .
17 He had separate orders , each locksmith and at this time I 'd done all the ord whatsit er and this and that and the other and I said what 's next ?
18 My doctor offered me a course of anti-depressant tablets and by this time I felt my children were becoming immune to antibiotics .
19 But before that time I guess father did n't leave the island .
20 The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained .
21 I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him .
22 He is one of the finest strikers so I suppose you ca n't totally blame the defence but by this time I thought we were in for a beating .
23 There was other stuff in similar vein but by this time I had my hand on the Yale latch and was opening the door .
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