Example sentences of "[adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very exciting time and we ( my then husband , Adrian , and I ) followed my parents to Cornwall . |
| 2 | I 've had a really horrendous time while you 've been away cavorting with your Jews … ’ |
| 3 | Bere Forest also had a tough match against Meridian B and , once again , they found themselves a goal down at half time but they took a 2–1 lead in the second half before Meridian B equalized to take the game into extra time . |
| 4 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 5 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 6 | And only two amazing misses , one of those candidly coming er just before scored the second Notts goal , with a headed chance headed wide when er had come and missed it , and when on forty four minutes on the watch but not a minute before the end of half time if you get the meaning because we had that long period of extra time , er missed the chance completely , he 'd made the er Pisa goal brilliantly with a cross from the right hand side , deep cross , pulled back brilliantly , but left with a chance , the number eleven in front of the post , well what was he doing ? again had come and again he 'd missed it and left with an open goal was wide of the target . |
| 7 | They reached the gate in even quicker time than they 'd left it . |
| 8 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 9 | Don Neely said that Crowe was asked at this time whether he was available for the World Cup if somebody else were skipper : ‘ I wo n't tell you his reaction . |
| 10 | After THAT book comes THIS film Madonna again getting her kit off , this time before she was famous . |
| 11 | Tony Visconti : ‘ Space Oddity ’ had been recorded and released at this time although it was not selling . |
| 12 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 13 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 14 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
| 15 | It was at this time that we read Morgan Forster 's article in the Listener about George Crabbe and we were touched and interested enough to seek out a copy of Crabbe 's poems and I well remember my surprise in discovering a mid-19th-century edition in San Diego , I think . |
| 16 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 17 | To test this , she wished again — this time that she could fly down as low as the treetops . |
| 18 | She knew this time that she was probably still alive , but it did n't feel like it . |
| 19 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 20 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 21 | It was at this time that she started painting seriously . |
| 22 | ‘ Or you 'll find this time that you will be court-martialled and end up in the gaol you were originally intended for . ’ |
| 23 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 24 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 25 | I had a dream at this time that I was caught by the Nazis . |
| 26 | It was about this time that I committed a faux pas which my contemporaries never let me forget . |
| 27 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 28 | I was confident by this time that I was safe , despite retaining my poor showing at school , but I was in a new trade — Metal Rigger — and was , by result , as good as most . |
| 29 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 30 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |