Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that time though I still kept contact with the market and the market traders on a Saturday , and a Thursday , if possible , after I 'd finished , remembering the market stayed open till nine o'clock at night . |
| 2 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 3 | This hour , before the heat began to build up , was the best time of day to be out of doors , and since her mistress would be asleep for some time yet she was free to go as she pleased . |
| 4 | My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party . |
| 5 | And thus I can say that both on the moment of this resolution and for some time afterwards I had more sublime and happy feelings than at any former period of my life . ’ |
| 6 | A car with headlights on came towards him , cautiously negotiated the hairpin bend , and for some time afterwards he could hear it grinding up the hill to Albert Terrace . |
| 7 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 8 | For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned . |
| 9 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 10 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 11 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 12 | For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching . |
| 13 | For some time now I have been greatly amused by Ian Wood 's column in the back page . |
| 14 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 15 | Swedish chief Tommy Svensson declared : ‘ If Anders does n't play for his club for some time then it 's going to be very difficult for me to pick him . |
| 16 | From that time onwards they simply diverted their genuine traffic through other circuits and then arranged to send carefully prepared disinformation over the tapped lines . |
| 17 | From that time onwards they are both informative and easy to use . |
| 18 | Yeah it says , I read the thing and it says I have n't got ta let them in unless they 've got a warrant so the first time they come they would n't have a warrant , surely , so they 're gon na have to go away and get a warrant and in that time then I 'd have to get a licence would n't I ? |
| 19 | The earliest of these was at Kiev where , in 988 , Vladimir , Grand Duke of Kiev was converted to Christianity and from this time onwards he and his successors encouraged commerce and cultural exchange between the area and Constantinople . |
| 20 | Since that time clearly we 've also had a series of further er indications development government guidance on the issue , new P P G one , three , and twelve all produced in March ninety two , which made it quite clear the environmental considerations were to be given greater attention in development plans . |
| 21 | Er er At at that time too it was er we the the sinking of the Titanic . |
| 22 | Finally , if you want the ultimate flexibility of being able to select the resolution of the output device and scale fonts to the size you want at any time then you must work with outline fonts . |
| 23 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 24 | By that time hopefully I 'll be signed up as a crew member . |
| 25 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 26 | I lie there light-headed on the pillow at half-past four in the morning , knowing that anyway it 's nearly over , that by this time tomorrow we 'll have done it , that by this time the next day I 'll be out of the country . |
| 27 | At least , I thought , by this time tomorrow it will be all over . |