Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 2 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 3 | After much furore , his results were published in Nature , along with , in a development unheard of at the time , a criticism of his data by one of the paper 's referees , the chemist Walter Stewart . |
| 4 | Of all the people she could have been stuck with at a time like this ! |
| 5 | It can damage muscles by forcing them to work harder than they are capable of at the time . |
| 6 | Less radical than the abolitionist , but perhaps more realistic , the reductionist seeks a minimalist prison system ( which it might be argued England , with a rate of 28 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants , was not far from at the time of Brockway 's article ) within which reasonably decent standards might be maintained . |
| 7 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 8 | It 'll be twenty to by the time I get round there . . |
| 9 | He had been killed instantly along with two other Commandos who were close by at the time , their remains scattered through the trees . |
| 10 | But we know now that that 's not true : that there are many unconscious and subconscious mental processes which we ca n't just introspect , and that our mental life is far more complicated than we ourselves are ever aware of at the time . |
| 11 | Again the two brothers were pushing at each other and as they all mounted the steps Ellen stepped and walked by the side of her son , something she was in the habit of doing whenever they were in company , and which Joe had been aware of from the time she had recovered after his uncle 's death . |
| 12 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |