Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bamberger orbited over Filfla for some time . |
| 2 | He 'll be at Stoke Mandeville for some time and will receive schooling with lessons in English . |
| 3 | Beefy will report fit for today 's fourth Texaco Trophy clash with Pakistan , but skipper Graham Gooch said : ‘ It 's a problem which has troubled Ian for some time . |
| 4 | He then went into the Army and did not see Minton for some time . |
| 5 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 6 | Salford chairman John Wilkinson added : ‘ Our scouts have watched Gary for some time . |
| 7 | Glentoran have been eyeing Dundonald-based Ferguson for some time . |
| 8 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 9 | What about private transport in Caldmore about this time , how was , what was that ? |
| 10 | So I think he 's sitting there in Wolverhampton about this time wondering what on earth he is |
| 11 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |
| 12 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |
| 13 | Marcus became gentler , moved to sit nearer to Patrick , ceased his exertions and , after gazing at Pat for some time , began to caress one of his hands , turning it about in his own hands and pressing it . |
| 14 | Don has played second fiddle to Damien McCusker for some time now and his county pedigree stretches back to 1983 when he was first honoured as a Minor . |
| 15 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 16 | The extension provided Rabbani with more time to form a consultative assembly , the Council of Resolution and Settlement ( Hal wa Aqd Shura ) , which would elect a permanent president and prepare for a general election . |
| 17 | Boro 's magnificent performance , and the backing of their fans , made it a memorable night , on which they were also denied by the fingertips of Danish international goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel , who made a superb save from Willie Falconer in extra time . |
| 18 | Thus two years ago , when Ministry of Education planners introduced a more practical and less theoretical maths programme in technical schools , several teachers who had been trained in Portugal in colonial times complained that by dropping square-root calculations from the course , the ministry was reducing the ‘ quality ’ of education . |
| 19 | But y I think you can also see the appeal of this to Freud in that time because in the early years Freud 's model of the mind , which is really what we 're talking about today , was erm a kind of hydraulic one . |
| 20 | In favour of the latter explanation is the sudden appearance of the Cretan round tomb in about 3000 BC : they are not known in Crete before that time . |
| 21 | It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time . |
| 22 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 23 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 24 | You have played far more contemporary music over the years than most people care to remember : a lot of Henze at one time , and more recently music through to Ligeti and Penderecki . |
| 25 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 26 | Maybe the man had lived in Grantley at one time and now lived somewhere else ? |
| 27 | For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education . |
| 28 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 29 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 30 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |