Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 2 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 3 | ‘ About some stolen property , ’ said the other , who , I 'd decided by this time , had shifty eyes . |
| 4 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 5 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 6 | I 'd retired by this time . |
| 7 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 8 | Oh I , I 'd gone over several times , oh yes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 11 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars . |
| 13 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 14 | They were also rooted in the past and in the nature of things — in the past , through the gifts of land , relics , and rights which they had received at various times ; in the nature of things through the physical separation of the British Isles from the rest of the world as an alter orbis . |
| 15 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 16 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 17 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 18 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 19 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 20 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 21 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 22 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 23 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 24 | On the few occasions on which she and Hugh had met since that time , neither of them had ever said a word about that holiday . |
| 25 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 26 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 27 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 28 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 29 | The author set the context for his story with a lengthy but fairly conventional genealogy of the kings of France , tracing their origins back to the Trojans as Frankish historians had done since Merovingian times . |
| 30 | 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 . |