Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 2 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 3 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 4 | It was invented by the Joseph-Robinson corporation , a particularly unscrupulous food company that operated for a time amongst the outer colonies of the planet Earth . ’ |
| 5 | Pope Clement , however , was not inclined to agree and that occurred at a time when the people of England were annoyed at the imposition of heavy taxation by the Cardinal Morton , also Cardinal Wolsey . |
| 6 | It is possible that this leakage was caused by minute perforations of the gall bladder allowing transudation of bile , that healed by the time of cholecystoscopy . |
| 7 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 8 | The events associated with the prisoners ' rights movement that flourished for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s in parts of the United States , Scandinavia and Britain had by the early 1980s largely disappeared without trace . |
| 9 | Fifteen li north of Tongjiang , at the edge of the T'ang 's great estate , were the ruins of an ancient Buddhist monastery that dated from the time of the great Sung dynasty . |
| 10 | Hopper and Fonda were looking for finance , although all that existed at the time was an eight-page outline for the plot , which Fonda had been toting around . |
| 11 | The amount of surplus ACT included in the claim must be capable of being determined by reference to circumstances that existed at the time of the claim ( see Proctor & Gamble Ltd v Taylerson ( 1990 ) STC 624 ) . |
| 12 | On Aug. 23 the Minister of Home Affairs , S. B. Chavan , presented a bill to the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) which sought to prohibit the conversion of any place of worship that existed at the time of India 's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 . |
| 13 | I can not understand how you , who appreciate so much Russian writers of the Nineteenth Century , can combine this appreciation with a complete ignorance of the obshchestvennoe dvizhenie ( liberal movement ) that started in the time of Alexander I , was conspicuously present throughout the century ( despite absolutism ) , and was deliberately played down by the Leninists and Trotskyists for propaganda reasons . |
| 14 | Well I think he made it clear that no jury could forget what everybody knew er which is of course er the the facts that emerged at the time er that the Birmingham Six were acquitted . |
| 15 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 16 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 17 | It should wear off eventually — in a week , a month or a year — depending on the astrological and meteorological conditions that prevailed at the time she launched it . |
| 18 | How can I be sure that this year 's cures will not be in disgrace and condemned by the time you read about them ? |
| 19 | Which in turn brings us to the most remarkable fact of all , namely that so far from corroborating the police 's recent claims , the witnesses they located and interviewed at the time signally failed to mention any suspicious behaviour whatsoever . |
| 20 | Those soldiers not incorporated into the FAA were meant to be disarmed and demobilized by the time the new army was established . |
| 21 | The team specializes in work with the elderly , and consisted at the time of five full-time equivalent ( FTE ) qualified social workers . |
| 22 | Charlie pulled out his fob-watch and glanced at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ Any alterations or changes to the page must be noted and initialled at the time . |
| 24 | There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct . |
| 25 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 26 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 27 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |
| 28 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |