Example sentences of "[prep] the time [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 2 | He di n't really impress me , but — The Leeds team of the time had a great defence , I do n't think Best ever scored against Paul Reaney , who he regards as his most difficult opponent . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 4 | Hodge had fostered relations with the Korean Democratic Party ( KDP ) , which at the time took a pro-American stance and preferred a continuance of the American occupation to any suggestion of trusteeship . |
| 5 | Jokes circulating in Bavaria at the time told a different tale . |
| 6 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 7 | Pallister recalled : ‘ What some people in the game said at the time left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 8 | The film showed his Ferrari jerking right ( Ferrari never carried out an inquiry , but Niki 's chief mechanic at the time conjectured a snapped rear left tie-rod ) , crashing through the chicken wire into the embankment — it was one of several dozen such places at the Ring and spectators were few — bouncing back onto the track , its petrol tank flying through the air . |