Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 2 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
| 3 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 4 | This occurs because the waves are not quite in step : sometimes they reinforce each other and at other times they cancel each other out — in the same way that 1 + ( -1 ) = 0 . |
| 5 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 6 | At times you can easily ‘ con ’ one into your net , and at other times you find they are less gullible . |
| 7 | Some mornings he 's suffering from what quite obviously is a hangover and at other times he appears to have a stomach upset . |
| 8 | Sometimes it felt close by and at other times it was only a distant echo . |
| 9 | Sometimes the wind swings steadily round over a period of time , and at other times it blows steadily in a curve . |
| 10 | Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough , but suddenly appears in the limelight . |
| 11 | Sometimes this is very sensitive — such as the details of complicated family or personal difficulties , and at other times it is as simple , yet vital , as whom to contact is the Home Help calls and receives no answer to the doorbell . |
| 12 | But at some times it 's apparent and at other times it 's not . |
| 13 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 14 | In the past , that wholeness was to be found in the college or the institution and its organic community , but in modern times it tends to be located in the subject-department , which becomes in Burke 's phrase the ‘ little platoon ’ which provides the student with his or her identity , base and purpose ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 15 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 16 | But at other times they seem like sledgehammers to crack nuts . |
| 17 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 18 | Some religious groups have uplifted people 's ethical conduct , but at other times they have allowed brutality to others in the name of the religion . |
| 19 | Sometimes the excess products could be released back onto the market , but at other times they were sold abroad at a loss or simply destroyed . |
| 20 | Military commanders sometimes push a salient forward but at other times they advance on a broad front . |
| 21 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 22 | Sometimes his concern with changing the way she looked amused Victoria , but at other times she found it upsetting . |
| 23 | Sometimes he implies that they can be , but at other times he speaks as though they are always ‘ observed to exist in several combinations ’ . |
| 24 | Sometimes he would sleep in them and wear them unchanged the next day , but at other times he took hours to choose what he would wear , then positively preened . |
| 25 | ‘ You can be perfectly well with HIV but at other times it 's hard to do even basic things . |
| 26 | Marx envisages moments when the social system will accord with the technological system ; but at other times it will enter into contradiction with it , leading to revolutionary changes . |
| 27 | On certain occasions we got it right , but at other times it was a joke . |
| 28 | The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee . |
| 29 | Sometimes the panic is passed over and forgotten , but at other times it has more serious and long term repercussions and it might produce changes in legal and social policy or even in the way in which societies conceive themselves . |
| 30 | But at other times it may be very difficult to single out policy issues that divide the parties . |