Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 8 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |
| 9 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 10 | His supporters were also quick to remind others of her opposition to the principle of referenda in 1975 , circulating copies of speeches she had made at that time . |
| 11 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |
| 12 | It had not been as he had dreamed at that time with the beloved of his youth : fame and glory , honour and victory . |
| 13 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 14 | Our review of the surveillance programme had three distinct goals : ( a ) to obtain full follow up of all patients who had participated at any time in the surveillance programme ; ( b ) to identify any other patients , who attended the department over this time and who should have been recruited into the surveillance programme ; and ( c ) to identify all cases of colonic carcinoma occurring in association with ulcerative colitis presenting to the department over this period . |
| 15 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 16 | Both sides had agreed in principle in May 1990 to the creation of a UN mission [ see p. 37449 ] but had specified at that time that its establishment was conditional on the agreement of a ceasefire . |
| 17 | The one thing he always refused to consider at any time of financial uncertainty was selling any of his personal shareholding in Virgin . |