Example sentences of "[adv] in [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 2 | I had a room to myself but , because fuel was rationed , there was no heating in it , and so in my time off I was forced to sit with Mr and Mrs Webster . |
| 3 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 4 | No there was none of that near in our time . |
| 5 | Simon the Stripping Vicar had also in his time been Simon the Sex Ton , the Curvy Curate and even the Randy Rabbi . |
| 6 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 7 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 8 | It had happened twice before in his time as Governor . |
| 9 | The Aussie , who leaves at the end of this season to head the Auckland assault on Australia 's Winfield Cup competition , insists playing standards have improved dramatically in his time . |
| 10 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 11 | There are still celebrations on its anniversary , even in my time . |
| 12 | They 've had some important and notable cup victories here in their time have Shrewsbury Town , but none can have been as dramatic as this match , whatever the final result turns out to be . |
| 13 | But at the moment it 's not really a great problem , because the lads here go and see the prostitutes , report them for summons , and we do Well in my time here certainly , i it 's been reduced considerably to what it was . |
| 14 | After Eden had returned from the House , there might be another meeting of Suez Ministers at about 4.30 or 5.00 pm , and another between 10.00 and 11.00 pm , to give Sir Pierson Dixon in New York his final briefing for the United Nations , which would come to the boil about 12.30 or 1.00 am in our time , i.e. 7.30 to 8.00 in New York . |
| 15 | It is n't there in your time . |
| 16 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 17 | Never in my time but I 've heard it spoken about here . |
| 18 | Although it was never in his time subjected to the trial of a major war , it was given one partial blooding . |
| 19 | The bay of Saint lean is a noble , open prospect , though it has been a dangerous place too in its time . |