Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [unc] time " in BNC.

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1 The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown .
2 In the wake of recent archaeological discoveries , there is now little question that Celtic Christianity , as it evolved between Patrick 's time and the Synod of Whitby in the mid-seventh century , owed little to Rome .
3 Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) .
4 So she began to speak , choosing her words with care and refusing steadfastly to talk about Johnny 's war , or of the little she knew of Johnny 's time .
5 But the consequences of an unresolved oedipus complex look quite different today from the way they looked in Freud 's time .
6 The opening Adagio of the Sixth Concerto readily commends itself to one 's attention as it did in Stanley 's time , especially as performed on this fine recording .
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