Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty . |
| 2 | One wasted so much time arguing with the body , urging it through the laborious and uncomfortable routine of physical existence — getting up , washing , shaving , even moving . |
| 3 | That the potters devoted so much time and care into applying these techniques would appear to indicate the existence of willing purchasers . |
| 4 | How many of you know what transpired yesterday this time outside Moat Centre . |
| 5 | They were given a sumptuous tea and invited back any time they felt like coming . |
| 6 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 7 | The counsellor may often find that this period also coincides with the onset of a depressed or confused state of mind , suggesting that it is the problems and difficulties which occurred around this time that require counselling attention . |
| 8 | Jack 's sister Lorraine said she knew that June had dated Don Rose around that time but no one could confirm that he was the father , or his secondary claim that he had married June before the baby was born ( he said they had separated quickly and she 'd later got a Mexican divorce , though apparently no papers are available to support his allegations ) . |
| 9 | According to Albert Speer , Goebbels referred around this time not just to a ‘ leadership crisis ’ , but to a ‘ Leader crisis . |
| 10 | It was notable that , in his introductory speech , the Home Secretary devoted very little time to the content of the Bill and scarcely sought to justify it . |
| 11 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 12 | Think I played right that time . |
| 13 | She did not know that it had been spiked with tranquillisers until she woke up some time later . |
| 14 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
| 15 | Orbit publishes Alan Dean Foster 's Son of Spellsinger ( £4.99 ) , and although the previous book in this series came out some time ago fans have long memories and this will sell well . |
| 16 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 17 | Those belonging to language groups such as Kaonde , Luvale , Lunda and Lozi , which were recognised but received proportionately less time , also protested , saying that all the recognised languages should in fairness receive equal time . |
| 18 | It certainly paid off this time . |
| 19 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 20 | One French officer describes how he was buried three times that day in his trench , and dug out each time by his men . |
| 21 | As I turned around each time I could see Mark crouching in the snow . |
| 22 | A lot happened around that time . |
| 23 | She says it is coming on slowly — it 's a long-term job … an awful lot of work … we never envisaged how much time we 'd spend weeding the gravel and general tidying up all the time . |
| 24 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |
| 25 | ‘ The only visitor was the messenger who arrived about that time and left a message that the King would be coming to Kinghorn later that day ! ’ |
| 26 | It allowed too little time for the furore provoked by Howe 's resignation to die down . |
| 27 | He got the boot after his wife walked out and half the players quit because he spent so little time trying to improve the side 's miserable record in Delmenhorst , Germany . |
| 28 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 29 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 30 | Will he be as happy as his stepmother to indulge the coach parties , the corporate guests , the Japanese tourists with whom Raine and her husband spent so much time ? |