Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 2 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 3 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 4 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 5 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 6 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 7 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 8 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 9 | Whoever killed him , killed him within that time , for he had not stirred . |
| 10 | More than three times as many men as women killed themselves during that time , the Minister for Health , Brendan Howlin , disclosed . |
| 11 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 12 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 13 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 14 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 15 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 16 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 17 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 18 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 19 | You can see furniture , you can see old houses , Arthur Neagus going round all these old houses , you can see a lot of things now , that the normal public never would see in the , the ordinary man in the street probably never saw them at one time , but I think this must of made a difference to people . |
| 20 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 21 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 22 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 23 | We have cut out the instructions and kept it for next time . |
| 24 | I took it on full time , ’ she said . |
| 25 | oh I 'll have to have look down there then , cos we buy 'em , now where do we get 'em from now ? , er Co-Op we got 'em from last time did n't we ? |
| 26 | It reminded her of another time . |
| 27 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 28 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
| 29 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 30 | It was out of season for rugby and so he had plenty of roving time and the nights were growing longer . |