Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 4 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 5 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 6 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 7 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |