Example sentences of "but [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 3 | But in that time he was credited with the discovery of three rarities the spring gentian , the mountain avens and the bog orchid , which was then lost again and only recently rediscovered . |
| 4 | Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley . |
| 5 | Yeah , but at that time we were s trying to speed back to York |
| 6 | But at that time he was fully occupied with BAT . |
| 7 | Today there 's not much of a problem , but at that time it was a little more troublesome and there was nobody doing anything about it . |
| 8 | But at that time it was n't what you 'd call modern in so far as you had n't got hot water from a sort of gas fir Electric heating . |
| 9 | In fact a lot was happening in my world , but at that time I was n't at all aware of it . |
| 10 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the undoubted paranoia of the fanatical adherent of solar monotheism in ancient Egypt , the Pharaoh Akhenaten ( alias Amenhotep IV ) , but at that time I was unable to demonstrate how such paranoid tendencies were related to the evolution of cultivating societies . |
| 11 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 12 | I think that 's how you learn people 's true reactions to you , but by that time I was starting to feel better about myself , and I could laugh at them . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher 's last-minute play for the collection was in 1988 , but by that time it was too late : a contract had been signed with the Spanish government ( see interview with Baron Thyssen , p.6 ) , committing the collection to a ten-year loan in Madrid . |
| 14 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 15 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |
| 16 | He then served as curate at St Ignatius , Ossett and St Nicholas , Gipton , but by this time he was becoming increasingly involved in additional administrative tasks . |
| 17 | The firm of Beckinton , Wilson & Co. , iron merchants , was dissolved in 1836 , but by this time he was investing in a fleet of sailing ships to carry his own cargoes . |
| 18 | He glanced at Nina for support but by this time she was staring at the ground . |
| 19 | I can imagine that there will be those who fill find his rendering of the main theme 's final return somewhat cloying , but by this time I was already far to engrossed to worry unduly . |
| 20 | This expired in 1978 , but by this time it was such an established force in user education in the USA that it was able to switch to being a self-financing , subscription-funded clearinghouse in that year . |
| 21 | In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris . |