Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 10 | It did in my time and believe me , nothing changes . |
| 11 | Erm can you tell me some more about your father 's job and what he did in his time . |
| 12 | He was a movie nut and the take-away had in its time been called : the Yangtze Incident , the World of Suzy Wong ( copyright difficulties ) and Enter the Dragon ( raided by the Drugs Squad ) . |