Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | did any of them have symptoms during that time when they had recurrences , that brought them back ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 5 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 6 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 7 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul . |
| 13 | For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 17 | For some time now I have gradually become more and more disillusioned with teaching . |
| 18 | For some time now I have been greatly amused by Ian Wood 's column in the back page . |
| 19 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 22 | Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on . |
| 23 | Just close your eyes and think of that time when you were really well . |
| 24 | Ken , however , was more than once seen to go into his bed and fall fast asleep — undoubtedly the pressure of working in the theatre at night and recording Beyond Our Ken on other mornings proved too much and was reminiscent of another time when he fell asleep . |
| 25 | ‘ Can you think of another time when you have done this , or felt like this ? ’ |
| 26 | In the last minute , Bernie Gallacher , the Villa full-back , denied Wolves the chance of extra time when he headed Shane Westley 's header from under the bar . |
| 27 | Sherry , by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons , was one of the fastest climbing chart toppers of all time when it was released in Britain in 1962 . |
| 28 | It is perhaps surprising that Dempsey is ranked among the greatest champions of all time when he was artificially protected from the challenge of black opponents . |
| 29 | That 's , I tell you what that 's the one person that , sitting here thinking now , I ca n't think of any time where I 've been angry with Andrew |
| 30 | Like that time when I saw you in Kent , you seemed to be all right together . ’ |