Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last few months of her journal witness a severe crisis in her life when , having produced a scientific paper on lichen ( nowadays considered ahead of its time ) , her researches were dismissed in a high-handed and sexist way by the Director of Kew Gardens to whom she presented her work . |
| 2 | I am not now going to engage in lamentations about the ignorance and lack of reading of present-day undergraduates , though I have done so in my time , and could be easily provoked into them again . |
| 3 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 4 | His dad had died long before his time , and that 's how he came into it … the business . |
| 5 | Like Harry the Duck he is an anachronism , born out of his time . |
| 6 | He was a gentle , courteous , convivial , slightly bemused romantic , born out of his time . |
| 7 | Another , more kindly , soul said he was born out of his time . |
| 8 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 9 | Above all , I have been impressed by the immense generosity of my academic and museum colleagues , who have given unstintingly of their time and expertise for this catalogue ’ . |
| 10 | The Aussie , who leaves at the end of this season to head the Auckland assault on Australia 's Winfield Cup competition , insists playing standards have improved dramatically in his time . |