Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 2 | Most cats spray at some time , but usually away from home base . |
| 3 | This is an important shift away from the concept that a firm is competent to carry out investment business and may be authorised solely on the grounds that its partners have at some time qualified as chartered accountants . |
| 4 | None of this alters the fact that it is possible to use these adjectives with a tense value distinctively different from that of the preceding verb ; see ( 51 ) and the contrast in ( 52 ) : ( 51 ) we all know Cerrutty to have been fortunate ( 52 ) ( a ) in the test my men showed themselves alert ( b ) in the test my men showed themselves to have been alert In ( 52 ) , ( a ) would naturally be suitable when the men respond promptly during the test , and ( b ) when , for instance , they had been alert in paying attention to instructions given at some time before the test . |
| 5 | Percentage of pupils absent at some time during the week in November was 30% . |
| 6 | Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality . |
| 7 | ‘ 87 per cent of women work at some time in your lives . ’ |
| 8 | Again , most women have at some time come across specimens of English anti-feminism , though the geography of this unpleasant addiction does not follow national boundaries or even religious ones although both have their own special effects . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |