Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 2 | During that time he was ordered by gang members to shave off his beard to change his appearance and was again threatened that his family would be harmed if he did not do as he was told . |
| 3 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 4 | At about this time I was able to discard the dread of the " chop " from Halton and a balm to my ego was a gain in my outdoor activities , particularly in cross-country and track , I felt very comfortable at the workshops , I also adored the evening sessions at school when we were lectured by such great names of the day as Churchill , Trenchard , Beaverbrook , General Smuts , a host of politicians , and near our own held , such fine names in aviation as Handley Page and others ; splendid names in their day . |
| 5 | During this time she was involved in various local organisations . |
| 6 | During this time she was introduced to John Stuart Mill [ q.v. ] , the Utilitarian philosopher , with whom she began a long-term unconventional platonic relationship . |
| 7 | During this time I was able to develop some understanding of the sorts of backgrounds my interviewees came from , what their hopes , fears , values and experiences of life had been like before they joined the movement and how these might have changed since . |
| 8 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 9 | During this time it was not possible to determine oesophageal bicarbonate outputs by the pH/pCO 2 method as the pH was below 6.1 . |
| 10 | During this time he was inspired by a book called London Labour and London Poor by Henry Mayhew . |
| 11 | During this time he was ordained deacon and priest . |
| 12 | During this time he was desperately pressed with debts and with the payment of his common service of 1,450 florins to the Roman curia , which he effected by February 1321 . |
| 13 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 14 | For some time I was baffled by a sentence in his argument that the theoretical removal of the authority of the author by the critic , Stanley Fish , has no way of dealing with misprints : ‘ His book happens to be full of misprints . |
| 15 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 16 | It did n't require much capital to manufacture the equipment or produce the short films , and for some time it was possible for small craftsmen on the British model to keep up with the big boys in France or the US . |
| 17 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 18 | The letter , ‘ I ca n't forgo principles ’ , was reportedly published at the behest of Ligachev and for some time it was believed that Andreeva was the pseudonym of a conservative member of the leadership . |
| 19 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 20 | For this time it was an army , no less , ten thousand strong , though its actions were still those of simple border reivers . |
| 21 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 22 | After some time she was removed from her mounting pedestal , stripped down to bare metal and repainted in an accurate B-model colour scheme . |
| 23 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 24 | After closing time he was walking home with a friend when he felt an arm round his neck and was confronted by Simpson , who wielded the knife and demanded he hand over his jumper and coat . |
| 25 | During such time he was wont to arise at 5.30 every morning in order to be ‘ in tune with the rhythms of the day ’ . |
| 26 | For most of that time she was in labour and great pain , she told an inquest this afternoon . |
| 27 | Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . " |
| 28 | And I 'd walk around the empty house , or ring Mum for a chat ; sometimes I 'd lie on the floor in Charlie 's attic and wonder what he was doing and what kind of good time he was having . |
| 29 | Like that time I was ill in bed . |
| 30 | From that time he was dedicated , a marked man . |