Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 2 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 3 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 4 | Whoever killed him , killed him within that time , for he had not stirred . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 7 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 8 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 14 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 15 | It reminded her of another time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Did he at any time make advances to you ? ’ |
| 18 | She loved them , and she loved the work though it left her with little time for going out and enjoying herself in the evenings . |