Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat on a park bench in Clifton , having revisited the streets where Moggach lived during her time in Bristol . |
| 2 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 3 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 4 | He came to me time after time , as useless as a surcharged phonograph — drunk on Byron , Shelley , or Keats . |
| 5 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 6 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |
| 7 | Although this happened before my time with 57 Squadron one of the crew became a good friend before he remustered from A/G for pilot training and he was very proud of his Caterpillar Club membership . |
| 8 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
| 9 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 10 | And while Souness paid tribute to Dalglish for all he achieved in his time on Merseyside , he intends to bury their former alliance for tomorrow 's 90-minute battle of wits . |
| 11 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
| 12 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 13 | I do n't know , I rang from what time , were n't it ? |
| 14 | The instrument of resurrection was to be the turnpike. this custom prevailing , 't is more than probable , that our posterity may see the roads all over England restored in their time to such a perfection , that travelling and carriage of goods will be much more easy both to man and horse than ever it was since the Romans lost this island . |
| 15 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 16 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
| 17 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 18 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
| 20 | He made no allegations concerning his time in homes at the age of four , but complained about his time at the smallholding in Anglesey . |
| 21 | We are very grateful to the British Council for arranging these visits , and to all those who so willingly gave of their time to talk to and entertain us . |
| 22 | Thanks were also extended to all the club members who gave of their time and hard graft to ensure that fun was had by all . |
| 23 | It did in my time and believe me , nothing changes . |
| 24 | Erm can you tell me some more about your father 's job and what he did in his time . |
| 25 | When it came slightly up-breeze of Tallis she noticed the appalling stench that emanated from its form : marsh gas and the smell of death which she remembered from her time in the mortuary house . |
| 26 | If I return to the matter of improving liaison is it possible that I might be provided with a list of the names of the various staff that serve the Branch and also the names of the Committee members- and this updated at whatever time of year the membership changes . |
| 27 | In his French interview , Cantona said of his time at Leeds : ‘ I had become boss of the team , and manager Howard Wilkinson told me so . |
| 28 | Modestly , he said of his time : ‘ It was good . |
| 29 | Mr Murphy said of his time in the Belmarsh top security prison : ‘ The experience was devastating . ’ |
| 30 | The pattern continued throughout her time at school , leading her foster father to conclude that her education was a waste of time : |