Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 2 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 3 | the , what Daniel wrote there it 's happening in our time |
| 4 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 5 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 6 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 7 | Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and is remembered as the ‘ Father of English Potters ’ , but it was not only as a pottery manufacturer that he was renowned and respected in his time . |
| 8 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 9 | Thalberg ( 1812–71 ) was considered in his time Liszt 's only true rival . |
| 10 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 11 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 12 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 13 | Desperately remote though it seems , this forest has in its time been much worked , beech wood having been prized for making oars for ships and sent off in great quantities to the coast . |
| 14 | When finally she becomes a mother-in-law she is entitled to tyrannise her daughter-in-law , reminding her that ‘ I have suffered in my time now it is your turn ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Is this how you put in your time now ? ’ said Cowley . |
| 16 | And nor is it simply a question of numbers — among these studies are some of the subtlest , most ingenious and most penetrating essays written in our time , and the factor common to almost all , the naive or the clumsy as well as the brilliant , is the conviction explicit or implicit that Joyce is an outstanding , indeed for some the outstanding , modern writer . |
| 17 | ‘ The artist ’ , she said , ‘ is never accepted in her time . ’ |
| 18 | As a juvenile romanticist Kingston , like his contemporary Ballantyne , used the device of the intrusive author accepted in his time and , besides , the didacticism expected in books for the young , didacticism made easier by the continuity and the extent of time afforded by serial publication in the boys ' magazines of the period . |
| 19 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 20 | And therefore for for various reasons their interest in driving , in most cases , not all , cos I mean some of them are very good , but in most cases their interest in driving i is is limited to what they 're gon na do in their time off . |
| 21 | The FA are aware of Souness 's comments , particularly about referee Brian Hill , whom he accused of letting ‘ things go on which I 've never seen in my time back in England ’ . |
| 22 | I have seen in my time Frenchmen , Italians and Russians . |
| 23 | But I 've seen in my time coble to ship cattle with to swim them off . |
| 24 | ‘ He is the best goalscorer I 've ever seen in my time in professional football , and anyone who has seen Liverpool over the years will agree he 's a very special player . ’ |
| 25 | But the animals that are to be seen in our time can be interpreted as the end-products of an arms race that was run in the past . |
| 26 | After the wounds he 'd seen in his time , how could one little splinter have such an effect ? |
| 27 | Accused in its time of being a scandalous affront to bourgeois morality , La Ronde in fact pinpoints its hypocrisy most acutely and in retrospect reveals its author as ( among other things ) a perceptively premature feminist . |
| 28 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 29 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |
| 30 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |