Example sentences of "[prep] time [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time after time he had pressed the claims of a workingman candidate on a constituency " , but they had properly chosen the man who was considered to be most suitable for the constituency . |
| 2 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 3 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 4 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 5 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 6 | time after time I tried to walk away I come to depend on you I give you all the love I had in me . |
| 7 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 8 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 9 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 10 | The length of time they spent there and the types of homes involved are shown in Table 1 . |
| 11 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 12 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 13 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 14 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 16 | In general I thought the campaign was well presented and dealt with by Media Action given the shortness of time they had to prepare the sketches and the associated scripts . |
| 17 | Several cast sheep were found , lying on their backs while their legs kicked the air helplessly , but after Silas had grabbed their thick wool and jerked them to their feet they also ran , or staggered away , depending upon the length of time they had been cast . |
| 18 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 19 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 20 | Well , in the nick of time they realized that all that Anna was wailing about was some French floozy the prince was n't even particularly attached to ( a crony of Anna 's , a censorious old toad who lived in hotels and got everything half wrong , had spilt the beans to her ) . |
| 21 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 22 | From the contents page of Time we saw that there was an article on heavy fighting between Lebanon 's warring Shi'ite militias , Amal and Hezbollah , but the relevant pages had been cut out . |
| 23 | The amount of time we spent using media , their virtual inescapability and thus the extent of their potential influence , all make their history important . |
| 24 | From the beginning of time it had waited , embedded in the great black Altar of Khaine on the Blighted Isle . |
| 25 | The Waltham Forest CHC not only was in disagreement with Mezey but also questioned the length of time it had taken the RHA to make time for a discussion of the report ( one year ) . |
| 26 | Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water . |
| 27 | The City took a dim view of what it regarded as the inordinate amount of time it took for the group to return a profit there . |
| 28 | In the short space of time it took him to walk across the room arm-in-arm with Mme de Ratho , he thought he saw … . |
| 29 | While there was such a difference in the length of time it took to acquire qualifications , many working class youngsters who had achieved good grades in the sixth form tended to view a course in teacher training as marking the limit of their ambitions . |
| 30 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |