Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 2 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 3 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 4 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 5 | The Tory paternalists of the 1950s seemed dated by the time of the Heath government in 1970–4 . |
| 6 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 7 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 8 | The court was told that teenagers were made to suck dummies and wear nappies , were bathed like babies and told to regress to the time they were last happy . |
| 9 | But in spite of their hardness they seemed to vanish in no time . |
| 10 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 11 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 12 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 13 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 14 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 15 | For , in the book of Daniel ( 12:4 ) there is a prophecy that seemed to speak of a time when many would pass to and fro and knowledge would be increased . |
| 16 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 17 | As a result the standard of craftsmanship to be found in some and the level of enthusiasm in all of his regular students is extremely high and the range of instruments produced expanding at the time . |
| 18 | Sammy had his own log book and the number of sorties he did over Germany varied according to the time of night and the amount of beer consumed in that period . |
| 19 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 20 | Mother Mary Theresa became involved about the time of the outbreak of World War II . |
| 21 | This can be done simply by a witness being asked in court , ‘ Is the defendant the man you saw driving at the time of the offence ? ’ |
| 22 | There was a little blonde piece beside him ; she could n't keep still , kept bouncing about every time the band played a number . |
| 23 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 24 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 25 | Erm , immediately as we went in it was er a very poorly furnished room erm I 'm going in there 's a window on the far side and there was a small single bed erm which to all intents and purposes appeared un-made at the time and there was a duvet covering it |
| 26 | It is not necessarily the Secretary of State 's definitive view , it is the view that erm the regional office have come to given the erm evidence presented presented at the time . |
| 27 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 28 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 29 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 30 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |