Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales . |
| 2 | During that time they stopped to talk to no one , though they passed other craft on the river whose occupants stared at the company . |
| 3 | Well I was er Er the school days from were from er eleven to fourteen and er tt of course during that time we had the opportunity to try and pass for grammar . |
| 4 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 5 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 6 | Of course , during that time we run out of flour and had to get water and groceries . |
| 7 | Although this subsides after about 15 minutes , during that time you 've probably applied lashings of moisturiser . |
| 8 | As part of the training programme , you had to spend this period underground , of which eighteen months had to be spent on the coal face and during that time you did lots of jobs that mineworkers did . |
| 9 | They had been in the outback for four months , and during that time it had become clear to Gould that his projected trips to New Zealand , Moreton Bay , and Norfolk Island were unnecessary . |
| 10 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 11 | During that time it has had numerous facelifts , and in what must surely be the last of its nine lives , the Big Cat has had another . |
| 12 | During that time I had them out three times because I thought I 'd make them see . |
| 13 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 14 | During that time I had the misfortune to visit the infamous Boggo road gaol ; I stress that I was a visitor . |
| 15 | I had a studio there for two months and during that time I got all the ideas together for the record . |
| 16 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 17 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 18 | During that time I made over 45 phone calls to vets , zoos , aquariums , fishkeepers , garden centres , and local authorities — all to no avail . |
| 19 | During that time I held honorary NHS senior registrar status and , to maintain my clinical skills , was on call once a week as a resident registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and did a full day 's operating list once every two weeks . |
| 20 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 21 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 22 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 23 | During that time he took his decision about Marler : to continue keeping an eye on him . |
| 24 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 25 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 26 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 27 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |
| 28 | Although Ross had insisted on seeing her every day , during that time he had never done anything more than kiss her hand . |
| 29 | During that time he made important progress in a number of directions . |
| 30 | During that time he proved to be a wonderful companion . |