Example sentences of "[verb] in its time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 2 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It makes the sun appear to vary in its time keeping . |
| 7 | He was a movie nut and the take-away had in its time been called : the Yangtze Incident , the World of Suzy Wong ( copyright difficulties ) and Enter the Dragon ( raided by the Drugs Squad ) . |
| 8 | The museum 's weirdest exhibit , hailed in its time as a ‘ Marvel of the age ’ and a ‘ Wonderful freak of nature ’ , is a must for children and can be found just along the corridor . |