Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 2 | Perhaps if someone invented a time machine ( almost certainly a scientific impossibility ) archaeologists would have the satisfaction of being able to prove and disprove each other 's theories ; failing that , we have to accept that the science of the distant past is a matter of informed deduction and , let us face it , guesswork . |
| 3 | I would , I would have to be absolutely honest and that and er I would n't exclude myself from that particular er way of thinking because when they moved in , when you got a time for a job , erm for example there was one particular job that I was on erm and I thought that I was doing it reasonable accurately and rapidly , erm and they wanted to introduce a new fixture so that you know , I could do the whole series of faces on it . |
| 4 | Boulton quotes R.V. , a mother of three small children who created a time boundary : |
| 5 | They chewed small slivers of the rancid meat and cried , and Tallis watched all of this from the oakwood , and in the oak mind , through the brain sap that flushed through her body , she remembered a time of childhood , and a question from an old man . |
| 6 | We needed a time to be fed from the Word of God . |
| 7 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 8 | We suggested a time of quiet , to catch any ideas that might come from this Source . |
| 9 | But there came a time when that struggle could no longer increase life enjoyment as far as the adult population was concerned . |
| 10 | Though I jumped too when he cracked the whip , there came a time when I refused to jump as high as the others . |
| 11 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 12 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 13 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 14 | There came a time , though , when even these were abandoned and a large hall-like building was constructed on a completely different alignment , which even ignored the Roman street lines . |
| 15 | There came a time when she thought that if she did it once more , he would burst of an apoplexy . |
| 16 | There followed a time of uncertainty but , it had been ‘ business as usual ’ at Alton General , with staff ‘ making do ’ and ‘ covering up the cracks ’ in their efforts to provide an atmosphere of peace and calm , however hard worked they were behind the scenes . |
| 17 | There followed a time of uncertainty and bloodshed which was eventually resolved when the republic developed into an empire with Augustus as its first emperor from 27 B.C. The Augustan period from then until his death in A.D. 14 was one of the great and successful ages of man and , architecturally , this is reflected in the many great buildings which were erected under the auspices of Augustus whose boast was that when he came to Rome it was a city of bricks but that he left it a city of marble . |
| 18 | They agreed a time and place to meet . |
| 19 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 20 | They fixed a time and he turned back to his friends . |
| 21 | They fixed a time . |
| 22 | They fixed a time . |
| 23 | In his budget speech Neville Chamberlain had justified a £10 increase in the tax allowance for second and subsequent children by saying that he saw a time not too far distant ‘ when countries of the British Empire will be crying out for more citizens of the right breed , and when we in this country shall not be able to supply the demand . |
| 24 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 25 | He remembered a time when Jane had feared a duel as much as he , but now she seemed more eager to protect her money than Lord John 's life . |
| 26 | It was also a hint that , while he wanted to retain ultimate control for as long as he lived , he foresaw a time when it might be possible to relinquish his personal hold on the administration of the system without it collapsing . |
| 27 | He recognized a time to change tack . |