Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 2 | ‘ Many are perfectly normal — except that they 've hit on hard times . |
| 3 | It 's the last three or four months erm the lack of education they 've had over that time . |
| 4 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 5 | We recognized that they had gone through troublous times before . |
| 6 | It was something they had dreamed of many times . |
| 7 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 8 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 9 | The ideological differences which have emerged no matter how defined by warring factions , are nevertheless traceable , in general , to the differing responses which they have made at those times in their histories when the need to make the decision became manifest . |