Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company . |
| 2 | During this time they had also become accustomed to a pattern of corporeal proximity , nothing like horseplay of course , or holding hands , or significant touching , but just an ordinary sort of being close together like two friendly animals in a stall . |
| 3 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 4 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 5 | During this time they learn to live with a family and to behave well . |
| 6 | Because the group had known her and her children for some time they agreed to ‘ have a go ’ and the placement went ahead . |
| 7 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 8 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 9 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 10 | But while United were now reduced to ten men during that last desperate half hour of extra time they survived magnificently to force themselves into the dramatic penalty spot finale in the rain . |
| 11 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 12 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
| 13 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
| 14 | In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship . |
| 15 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 16 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 17 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 18 | Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today . |
| 19 | At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger . |
| 20 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |
| 21 | At that time they accounted for nearly two thirds of our production . |
| 22 | If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance . |
| 23 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 24 | And then at that time they 'd just opened . |
| 25 | And we 'd got two hundred and then the dyers they were in their own union er at er at that time they 'd perhaps got er er thirty in the dye-house . |
| 26 | At that time they maintained that Christ the son of God descended on Jesus but left him before his suffering on the cross . |
| 27 | At that time they say the Apaches were forever raiding the little pueblos and carrying off whatever they needed , clothes , weapons , some women and sometimes boys young enough to be brought up Apache-style . |
| 28 | At that time they have one Exocet left . ’ |
| 29 | At this time they operated largely within the mercantilist premises of their opponents . |
| 30 | It is no good throwing things at them when they are safely in their dug-outs and shelters , but at some time they have to come out into the open , if only to change their clothes and appearance , and that is when we can get at them . |