Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 2 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 3 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 4 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
| 5 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 6 | The area suffered badly during the time of the plague which gave rise to the legend of the Butterstone . |
| 7 | Whereby the whole church family , broke up into groups for a period of education , and then came together for a time of celebration and worship . |
| 8 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 9 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 10 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 11 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 12 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 13 | Besides these major product innovations , the eurobond market has seen a plethora of subsidiary innovations , many of which have been one off or flourished only for a time . |
| 14 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 15 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 16 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 17 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 18 | We hope to arrange a tangible recognition of his services to children 's bookselling , but meanwhile , we share with his family sadness at the death of a young man of great ability who achieved much in the time available to him . |
| 19 | The system was not obnoxious to the perpetuity rule , because each settlement and resettlement was designed to comply with the rule , and the perpetuity period began afresh from the time of each resettlement . |
| 20 | This independence of knowledge sources during processing meant that the lexical access component could be directed to any part of the phoneme graph , and thus left to right strategies as used in HARPY could be compared with island-driving strategies which began anywhere along the time dimension of the search space . |
| 21 | Yes , she worked here for a time . ’ |
| 22 | it 's amazing , that there was nine people who worked there at the time of the war . |
| 23 | His father Arthur , who had played for Blackburn Rovers , Derby County and Portsmouth , worked there at the time . |
| 24 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 25 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 26 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 27 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 28 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 29 | He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time . |
| 30 | Down the garden , sloping to the river , the aged and useless apple trees are the successors of those that grew here in the time of Charles I , when the glebe terrier of 1634 speaks of ‘ one orchard , one backside , and two little gardens ’ . |