Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 2 | The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy . |
| 3 | While the Scottish Wildlife Trust has for some time had a system for identifying second tier biological sites , primarily as a conservation mechanism , no such system has been created for geological or geomorphological sites , until now . |
| 4 | Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify . |
| 5 | Almost every child , I imagine , has at some time owned a much-loved Teddy Bear . |
| 6 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Strangely enough , ’ Ockleton had said , Harry having to strain to hear him amidst the noise and smoke as closing time drew near , ‘ Rex was the one who seemed to interest Heather the most . |
| 8 | Allowed to choose her hairdresser , Carole Ann Ford plumped for an up-and-coming young stylist she had known and visited for some time named Vidal Sassoon . |
| 9 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 10 | A British report on the American occupation written at this time commented scathingly that the Koreans employed by the military government were ‘ almost hopelessly incompetent ’ . |
| 11 | Torrance almost had to pull out of the Lancome Trophy at St Nom La Bretesche when a foot disorder he has had for some time flared up during the final round . |
| 12 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 13 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 14 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 15 | If at a time before the end of the relevant period any property ceases to be property subject to a reservation , the donor shall be treated for the purposes of the inheritance tax legislation as having at that time made a disposition of the property by way of a potentially exempt transfer ( s102(3) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 16 | The DO at that time assured his superiors that these Masai were highly unrepresentative : the ‘ Masai tribe as a whole will have nothing to do with political agitators ’ . |
| 17 | Halling at this time had considerable hop fields from the area of the Plough to North and Upper Halling , the last of these fields to survive being in Upper Halling in the early 20th century . |
| 18 | Everybody whom we met at that time remembered you all with great affection . |
| 19 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 20 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 21 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 22 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 23 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 24 | Unfortunately the bed manufacturer had during that time increased the price to £120 each and this was their only source of supply . |
| 25 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 26 | They left at closing time split up outside , I reckon . |
| 27 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 28 | Schweppe had at that time suffered an apoplectic attack from which he died 18 November 1821 , at his home ( Les Petits Crêts ) in Bouchet , Petit Saconnex , Geneva . |
| 29 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 30 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |