Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove in silence for some time , before Pam spoke . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The film director Michael Law whom Minton met in Soho at this time has provided a vivid metaphor for his condition : ‘ Johnny was really like a clock with the machinery hanging out . |
| 4 | A Polish couple who lived in Cambuslang at that time regularly frequented the Shop in search of children 's clothes . |
| 5 | The teaching profession grew in strength at this time , developing a formal system of training to replace the nineteenth-century pupil teacher system . |
| 6 | The reason people thought she was naked all through the film was because she displayed a different attitude to sex from the one that prevailed in films at that time . |
| 7 | The two men travelled in silence for some time . |
| 8 | I stayed in London for some time , but I still wanted to go to sea . |
| 9 | The two men sat in silence for some time , each in his own thoughts . |