Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 2 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |
| 3 | Know we got lost with the time zone there because Portugal is an hour |
| 4 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 5 | None of the nomes in the cab noticed this at the time . |
| 6 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 7 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 8 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 9 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 10 | Existentialism and all those other topical philosophies of the past three decades , which seemed important at the time , may have given him some guidelines . |
| 11 | It all seemed important at the time , but notwithstanding the subterranean implications , Five Easy Pieces established Nicholson beyond doubt as the most effective actor of his kind around , and he was immediately rewarded with a second nomination for an Oscar ; he did not win it but his very inclusion meant two in a row for a relative unknown , a situation unheard of in recent Hollywood history . |
| 12 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 13 | ‘ I did what seemed practical at the time . |
| 14 | It was not the huge success that Lotus Development had anticipated mainly because it demanded hardware that seemed excessive at the time — an AT with at least 1MByte of RAM . |
| 15 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 16 | Yes , that was Cat 's way of life : he would always be the sex that seemed fashionable at the time . |
| 17 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 18 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 19 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 20 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 21 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 22 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 23 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 24 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 25 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 26 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 27 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 28 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 29 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 30 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |