Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 2 | It left quite an impression , because it needed the brilliant virtuosity that Repin already had at that time , and it needed powerful playing from the orchestra , not just loud but with a lot of richness for the fast passages — you know how to judge a great orchestra when you hear let's say thousands of notes in a few seconds , and there 's still a special timbre . |
| 3 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 4 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 5 | I also realised at that time that the future had little meaning for me . |
| 6 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 7 | The invention of the zodiac , the belt round the sky in which the sun , moon , and planets lie , also occurred about this time . |
| 8 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 9 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 10 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 11 | The present drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition ‘ Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection ’ , organised by Jane Roberts of the Royal Collection in 1987 and also exhibited at that time in America . |
| 12 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
| 13 | ‘ This is not surprising , ’ notes Correll , ‘ because nitrogen oxide emissions due to fossil fuel combustion also increased during this time . ’ |
| 14 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
| 15 | Mr W. M. Haggarty of Ayr was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman in place of Mr C. Smith who also retired at this time , and Mr A. D. Lamond of Perth was unanimously elected to the Committee . |
| 16 | Of the other 13 POWs , six were given nothing , five either died at that time or could not be traced , and two refused to submit to means testing . |
| 17 | He reached ground level unharmed and , discounting the thought of trying to retrieve his car from the courtyard , headed off towards the street most heavily trafficked at this time of night , which was Kennington Park Road . |
| 18 | but I do n't think you actually mentioned at any time you know the , the wife 's involvement in it other than that point . |
| 19 | He certainly never talked about any time in the forces . |
| 20 | The match never went into extra time |
| 21 | It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons . |
| 22 | Aunt Violet never spoke of that time . |