Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magistrates adjourned the hearing until later today after a solicitor asked for more time to consult his clients . |
| 2 | This can be soft previewed at any time to ensure that the output matches with the designers intention . |
| 3 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 4 | Polls in most states open today at 6am local time , which translated into British time means 11am for New York and 2pm for California . |
| 5 | If the ancient bacteria that lived before that time had been intelligent , they would have recognized it as a very serious pollution . |
| 6 | Brand new engine , introduced in nineteen eighty three , and we decided at that time to go metric . |
| 7 | We decided at that time to follow Brosman 's erm regimen which er had had the lowest recurrence rate then reported . |
| 8 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 9 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 10 | Lydia lay for some time wondering how best to upset him . |
| 11 | more time spent on devolution resulted in less time spent ‘ running ’ the school — teachers expected to spend their time educating the pupils rather than running a business ; |
| 12 | ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well . |
| 13 | Everybody whom we met at that time remembered you all with great affection . |
| 14 | The nastiest little attack we endured at this time came from , of all papers , the Lancet . |
| 15 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 16 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 17 | The military wing of Massoud Rajavi 's Mojahadin-e Khalq , the National Liberation Army ( NLA ) , had for some time operated out of the base with the permission of the Iraqi government . |
| 18 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 19 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 20 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
| 21 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 22 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 23 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 24 | Certain branches of the Ulster Workers ' Council wished for more time to prepare their particular factory or section of industry . |
| 25 | Unfortunately the bed manufacturer had during that time increased the price to £120 each and this was their only source of supply . |
| 26 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 27 | They left at closing time split up outside , I reckon . |
| 28 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 29 | Schweppe had at that time suffered an apoplectic attack from which he died 18 November 1821 , at his home ( Les Petits Crêts ) in Bouchet , Petit Saconnex , Geneva . |
| 30 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |