Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It seems a couple of them came out here a time or two , asked a few questions , shrugged their shoulders and took themselves off . ’ |
2 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
3 | The wind , blowing across the open ground , turned the roundabout and Crossley looked up nervously every time he heard it creak . |
4 | As a result , it was almost 20 years before I managed as slow a time as 13.3 again . |
5 | With a great effort she immersed herself in her work and it was n't until Myra put her head round the door that she realised how quickly the time had gone . |
6 | The Builder commented that the submission date of 1st February , 1857 gave too short a time and that it was a mistake to divide the competition into three parts . |
7 | Since Brusilov had not concentrated his troops in any one area , nor made tactical probes , and since the artillery bombardment lasted so short a time , the Austrians had no inkling of his intentions . |
8 | In 1910 the German one was a tiny organisation with a staff of only three ; while in 1913 the head of its Italian equivalent pressed strongly for it to be run by journalists rather than diplomats , since the latter usually stayed too short a time in Rome to establish the necessary good relations with newspapers and correspondents . |