Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 2 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 3 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 4 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 5 | Bragad was affable enough at the end — said that all things came to pass in good time if they were meant to . |
| 6 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 8 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 9 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 10 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 11 | The auction was successful with bids received amounting to 2.28 times the amount of stock on offer and the following day the Bank announced the issue of three new tranchettes of tap stock . |
| 12 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 13 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 14 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 15 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 16 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 17 | Time was marching on an in order to return to the hotel in Carcassonne I needed to leave in good time . |
| 18 | When John Thelwall , a well-known democrat and agitator , who had recently been on trial for treason , happened to call and then decided to stay for some time , the strange community fell under suspicion . |
| 19 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ St Louis Music was one of the companies I went to see at that time , and it felt like Ampeg , especially , was home for me . |
| 21 | No , I 've I I did think at one time whether to pass a note , bye ! |
| 22 | Undoubtedly , comparatively sudden and very widespread events , such as major marine transgressions , did occur at various times during the earth 's history . |
| 23 | No , both my sister-in-laws did play at one time for Scottish women 's football . |
| 24 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 25 | But anyway , with her mind , and I understand she did write at one time , she would have made an impression in some quarter or other . ’ |
| 26 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 27 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 28 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 29 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 30 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |