Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We needed a time to be fed from the Word of God . |
| 5 | Having taken Joyce gently back through her childhood , we reached a time when she was just a toddler . |
| 6 | We suggested a time of quiet , to catch any ideas that might come from this Source . |
| 7 | They agreed a time and place to meet . |
| 8 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 9 | They fixed a time and he turned back to his friends . |
| 10 | They fixed a time . |
| 11 | They fixed a time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He recognized a time to change tack . |