Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales .
2 During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company .
3 Yes , and during that time they used to have a lot of people visiting from overseas
4 It was during that time we all learned to play properly .
5 Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar .
6 Of course , during that time we run out of flour and had to get water and groceries .
7 Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot .
8 During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time .
9 As part of the training programme , you had to spend this period underground , of which eighteen months had to be spent on the coal face and during that time you did lots of jobs that mineworkers did .
10 Although this subsides after about 15 minutes , during that time you 've probably applied lashings of moisturiser .
11 During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable .
12 During that time it is anticipated they will account for initially 3% and ultimately 18% of aggregates provision .
13 During that time it is anticipated they will account for initially 3% and ultimately 18% of aggregates provision .
14 They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary .
15 During that time it 's proved itself an able ambassador for Britain , at peace and at war .
16 During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another .
17 Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad .
18 I was with Jack for nearly two years and during that time I first met Greg Norman .
19 During that time I shall give you no set work , you are to take no services in English nor preach in English , your sole task will be to become competent in Burmese .
20 My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio .
21 I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight .
22 I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record .
23 During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see .
24 During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail .
25 During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks .
26 And during that time I am going to work out a way to keep us safe while we complete the job that will make us rich . ’
27 It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played .
28 During that time I had the misfortune to visit the infamous Boggo road gaol ; I stress that I was a visitor .
29 It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls .
30 He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men .
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