Example sentences of "and [prep] [det] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After independence 200,000 Europeans fled the city and for some time it appeared to be uninhabited , a city decimated by plague . |
| 2 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 3 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 4 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 5 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 6 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 7 | They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary . |
| 8 | I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record . |
| 9 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 10 | As part of the training programme , you had to spend this period underground , of which eighteen months had to be spent on the coal face and during that time you did lots of jobs that mineworkers did . |
| 11 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 12 | Millie was two hours under Sister Mary , and during this time she learned that the nun did not always bother to use her hand , she also used a ruler that seemed as flexible as rubber , for when it hit knuckles it bounced back from them . |
| 13 | And during this time I belonged to Toc H. |
| 14 | And during this time I learned something very important-if you want to be happy , you must be free . |
| 15 | In 1579 , he was appointed Justice of the Peace for Kent and during this time he became associated with Sir John Leveson of Whornes Place who later became his close friend . |
| 16 | Lambarde continued living at the Palace until 1598 and during this time he maintained and kept in repair the buildings . |
| 17 | The family were Presbyterians , and her conscious effort to acquire an education began at the age of six , when she heard a sermon she could not understand , and from that time she adopted a plan for acquiring information through asking the meaning of every new word she heard . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
| 20 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
| 21 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 22 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 23 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 24 | April/May they were in , taking rock samples out and at that time we did n't even think they were looking for gold … |
| 25 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 26 | And at that time he wrote in a letter , ‘ In these concerts I could n't make enough slowings and accelerations . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 29 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 30 | 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 ? |