Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |
| 2 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 3 | In place of a unity of time came the notion of discrete temporalities , with a recognition of a historicity proper to each discipline or area of knowledge . |
| 4 | The hierarchy of cycles for each division of time led the Maya to devote more attention to the past than to the future . |
| 5 | The passage of time had become more relevant . |
| 6 | It astonished her how the passage of time had censored from his memory everything except the trimmings like crackers , turkeys and mince pies ; and he 'd imagined , in the place of the emotional strain and physical surfeit he 'd forgotten , a wholly fictitious jollity . |
| 7 | Now and again , however , we caught glimpses of its Templar past : black Beauce crosses printed on the walls which the passage of time had not faded ; old arrow slits through which you could glimpse the snowy fields beyond ; small gargoyles , some depicting wyverns or dragons , others the faces of long-dead knights . |
| 8 | Only with the passage of time did the two channels come to be seen widely as part of a single public service system . |
| 9 | As so often happens , the passage of time showed an increasing number of disadvantages of the treatment , including a greater frequency of heart disease and strokes in men receiving oestrogens . |
| 10 | In its cover story of the 15 April 1966 issue of Time said , ‘ In this century , every decade has its city and for the Sixties , that city is London . |
| 11 | If each novel a writer produces is meant to indicate the direction in which he or she is progressing , it does not provide the clear signpost that The Child In Time did . |
| 12 | Jobs under the new scheme will command a salary in proportion to time worked . |
| 13 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 14 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 15 | Held : Upon an appeal by Mr Stone 's widow it was held that an occupier who intended to permit another person to enter and use the premises for a limited period of time had to give a clear indication to the other that the permission was subject to a time limit . |
| 16 | With the aim of keeping only the Imperial Tobacco and Imperial Foods divisions , Hanson within a short period of time sold Imperial 's hotels and restaurants interests to Trust House Forte ( £190 million ) , Golden Wonder Crisps to Dalgety ( £87 million ) and Courage to the Australian company Elders IXL ( £1.4 billion ) . |
| 17 | A partnership will end with the passing of the fixed period of time set out in the Partnership Deed ( s. 32(a) Partnership Act 1890 ) . |
| 18 | It may here also be explained that after the main source of the Fleet was diverted , the portion of it which originally formed the boundary of the site granted for the building of the College , became a stagnant Ditch , which in process of time dried up , and that , with the addition of gravel and earth , a dry path from the College to the Professor 's house was thus constructed . |
| 19 | All this focus on time gave him a sense of peace , and he died an hour after the worker had left him . |
| 20 | The 16-year-old forgot her contact lenses at her hotel and only a desperate delivery in the nick of time saved her from an embarrassing night at the Virginia Slims Championships . |
| 21 | Went by without Lucy , each dark and light portion of time acquired a date and name only when they met . |
| 22 | A shortage of time proved problematical and in order to ensure that the Suhaili negotiated the fjords successfully in picking up the climbers , Knox-Johnston returned to the boat before the others . |
| 23 | And over in Galatians in chapter four , and in verse four , but when the fullness of time came God sent forth his son ! |
| 24 | The City very soon changed its tune , however , when the retailers in the fullness of time proved the wisdom of venturing into overseas markets and ultimately returned good profits . |
| 25 | Each of these assets has over the fullness of time authored its own particular problems and dilemmas . |
| 26 | She embarked on a new and even more enigmatic liaison with an Italian anthropologist of satanic reputation who in the fullness of time turned out to be — indeed , for some time , unrecognized by the British , had been — a structuralist . |
| 27 | They called police near their home at Willington , County Durham , for help — and the race against time began . |
| 28 | The race against time began . |
| 29 | Park 's Martin Smith and Philip James put on 65 and a partnership of 36 between David Smith and Gareth Evans kept Park in with a chance before time ran out . |
| 30 | The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had , in this case , been neglectful , and Charlie was looking , though that he did not know , where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began . |