Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually women who have left work , or moved from full time to part time employment , to care for a sick or frail elderly relative . |
| 2 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 3 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 4 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 5 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 6 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 7 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 8 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 9 | Letter that told of troubled times |
| 10 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 11 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 12 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 13 | In Nicosia that morning Andreas Panayiotou had warned us about snakes , and in particular , about the squat , dirt-coloured and venomous vipers that congregated at this time of year near water where they hunted birds . |
| 14 | Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C . |
| 15 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 16 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 17 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 18 | Togo had a Catholic monthly , Mia Holo , that first appeared during German rule and survived into modern times . |
| 19 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 20 | I found the sexism and heterosexism of the Black movement difficult to cope with and felt at that time that I was n't considered Black enough either in my colour or my politics . |
| 21 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 22 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 23 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 24 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 25 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 26 | Ur was amongst the cities they conquered and sacked at this time . |
| 27 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 28 | As late Anglo-Saxon rulers were often required to give undertakings of this sort at their coronations , Cnut was possibly crowned and anointed at this time . |
| 29 | The concept of " open skies " was first proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955 , but rejected at that time by the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The Villa Arnaga is appropriately and massively theatrical : a traditional , asymmetrical Basque villa with pitched roof and balcony but inflated to several times the orthodox size for such buildings . |