Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For health reasons she returned to England in 1883 , but her husband 's appointment in 1886 as Italian and Greek correspondent for The Times drew her back to Italy , where she lived in Rome until 1897 . |
| 2 | I witnessed this phenomenon in tragically symbolic form several months after The Times had published my series . |
| 3 | Butler 's role at Crystal Palace was thus largely a supportive one and he seldom gained much publicity , but fans of the time recognised him as a useful contributor to the Palace cause . |
| 4 | ‘ Was the bulk of the time devoted to the important or the trivial agenda items ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'll bet if the offices of The Times got vandalised , we 'd hear about it , all right . ’ |
| 6 | The Jewish High Priest of the time acceded to this and urged compliance from the populace . |
| 7 | A glowing profile by a local journalist of the time said : ‘ There 's nothing of the ruthless businessman in him . |
| 8 | be capable of completion in the time recommended . |
| 9 | A security man who worked at Balfour 's Croydon HQ at the time said : ‘ I know it did happen . ’ |
| 10 | With the 1977 renegotiation , Branson argued , a new royalty had been set which Oldfield and his lawyer at the time had considered fair . |
| 11 | A violent demonstration at the time drew 20000 participants to the site . |
| 12 | A Somerset vicar of the time complained in his diary : The law is too lenient to the poor in this Kingdom . |
| 13 | Likewise in physics pupils were offered ‘ a starvation course on the precise measurement of physical quantities … [ for , as an influential text of the time began ] ‘ Physics is essentially the science of measurements ’ ’ . |
| 14 | The farthing was still a useful unit of currency and the coins of the time had a grace and beauty which have since disappeared . |
| 15 | A correspondent of The Times thought it was ‘ like the first hearing of a great symphony ’ , and Harold Laski , never one to be outdone in either flattery or hyperbole , wrote to Baldwin that it was ‘ the greatest speech a Prime Minister has ever made ’ . |
| 16 | On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 . |
| 17 | Signs of the times appeared in a number of different places . |
| 18 | Newman in one of the Tracts for the Times drew up a form of service , to be used on the anniversary of Ken 's funeral , whose central message was ‘ He gave to Caesar the things that be Caesar 's and to God the things that be God 's . ’ |
| 19 | You and I and the editor of the Times Lit . |
| 20 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Make sure everything is submerged , and never remove the bottles before the time stated . |
| 23 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 24 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 25 | The emergent working class exhibited an eagerness and aptitude for organized protest , and an interest in socialist ideas , that the peasantry at the time lacked . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A fellow staffer of the time joked that his methods were ‘ street corner based ’ . |
| 28 | As a September 1958 edition of The Times pointed out , Black people ‘ are charged with all kinds of misbehaviour , especially sexual ’ . |
| 29 | On average , however , there seemed to be little difference in the time devoted to boys and girls on each occasion . |
| 30 | An article in The Times carried the heading " Yuppies oust the hippies of yesteryear " .8 This offers a good example of a test developed by Newman who called it " Chronic vigour " .9 This is not , however , to be understood as " whatever is old is good " . |