Example sentences of "[prep] the time [coord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 2 | The Palace defence , once as leaky as MI5 ( remember the 9-0 defeat by Liverpool ) was under pressure most of the time but withstood it , and the striker Bright , on the three occasions he was given a chance , hit the bar once and scored twice , with characteristic headers , giving Palace their first away win in the League this season . |
| 3 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 4 | Heilbroner ( 1974 ) , examining the human prospect in the mid-1970s referred to an ‘ erosion of confidence ’ as characteristic of the mood of the time and attributed it in part to ‘ a fear that we will be unable to sustain the trend of economic growth for very much longer ’ , and the recognition that we face ‘ a hitherto unimaginable prospect — a ceiling on industrial production ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We were frustrated at the time but came out with a completely proven business plan , ’ Mr Church says . |
| 6 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 7 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 8 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
| 9 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 10 | The man who offered this piece of advice turned out to be Lord Cole , who was chairman of Unilever at the time and went on to be chairman of Rolls-Royce and several other major companies . |
| 11 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |
| 12 | Bob Hawke , Prime Minister and leader of the ALP at national level , was visiting Perth , the capital of Western Australia , at the time and assented to the change . |
| 13 | The word Freedom was being bandied about a lot at the time and meant many different things . |
| 14 | John Veal was Chief Inspector of Accidents at the time and led the UK delegation while I was its only other member as alternate delegate . |
| 15 | I was up in Oregon at the time and got back to find that the tremor had shoved the sewage pipes up a few inches and thrown the water out of the lavatories , a well-known portent of Satan 's arrival , if you believe the infernal guidebooks . |
| 16 | Although his win brought amazed gasps at the time and returned odds of 444–1 on the tote , Foinavon in fact had been bought specifically with the Grand National in mind . |
| 17 | ‘ I was shooting a lot of travel features at the time and had done a few aerials just to try something new . |
| 18 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 19 | He had been a successful prize fighter at the time and had the good sense to buy the Blue Boar from the proceeds of the noble art . |
| 20 | She only escaped because she was ill at the time and had remained behind . |
| 21 | Her father 's attitude had been accepted at the time and accepted ever since . |
| 22 | Perhaps knowing the likely outcome , New Scientist 's editor made a pathetic excuse about being in Canada at the time and dropped one of his old colleagues into — and swiftly out of — the balloon . |
| 23 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 24 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 25 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 26 | Because Pliny the Elder had been so widely-esteemed , the historian Tacitus was anxious to find out more about the circumstances of his death , and about the eruption in general , so he asked Pliny 's nephew , who was seventeen at the time and survived the eruption , to provide him with details of what had happened . |
| 27 | He stayed in digs in a colliery village at the time and found it equally possible to integrate easily into the local community . |