Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 2 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 3 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 4 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 5 | The court was told that teenagers were made to suck dummies and wear nappies , were bathed like babies and told to regress to the time they were last happy . |
| 6 | But in spite of their hardness they seemed to vanish in no time . |
| 7 | It was difficult to make out the essential nature of the girl : it seemed to change with the time of day , the season . |
| 8 | For , in the book of Daniel ( 12:4 ) there is a prophecy that seemed to speak of a time when many would pass to and fro and knowledge would be increased . |
| 9 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 10 | The work was actually carried out in 1971–72 , although the lease did not take effect until February 1974 just two months before the old county borough ceased to exist at the time of local government reorganisation . |
| 11 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 12 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 13 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 14 | Read what the movement 's spokesman had to say at the time . |
| 15 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 16 | However , if the accused obtains property on credit but he can not pay when the instalments fall due , he has not acted deceitfully if he intended to pay at the time of obtaining the item . |
| 17 | Subsequent events tended to recur at the time of intercurrent infections , at which time the flow rate of oxygen was increased ; none subsequently required cardiopulmonary resuscitation . |