Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [prep] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 2 | Can copy be accessed from several files and displayed at one time ? |
| 3 | Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | In 1988 Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , war hero of campaigns in the south and described at one time as having fought a ‘ perfect tank battle ’ in the desert near the Howeizah marshes , was said to be under house arrest . |
| 5 | A pigeon clock-shifted 6 hours early but taken through three time zones to the east would in fact behave as if it ‘ knew ’ it should home to the west , but because its compass bearings are rotated 90° clockwise ( it thinks it is midday when it is 6.00 p.m. ) , it would ‘ home ’ towards the north rather than the west . |