Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty . |
| 2 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 3 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 4 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 5 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 6 | The attention of members is drawn to the decision of the Divisional Court of Appeal in the case of Rowe & Maw v Commissioners of Customs and Excise decided on 6th March , and reported in The Times of 8th March . |
| 7 | She stuffed the printout into her bag , where — somewhere — three other copies were already lurking , and looked at the time . |
| 8 | In the adventure of everyday life , on the other hand , the characters are affected by the events ( however fantastic ) that befall them , and the progression of changes fixes the order of events , giving a materiality to space as the scene of transformation and metamorphosis : ‘ Space becomes concrete and saturated with a time that is more substantial . ’ |
| 9 | For instance , it must be at an undervalue and made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts , the company must be in the course of being wound up in England or subject to an administration order , and so on . |
| 10 | Both Dalton and Alexander , the First Lord of the Admiralty , argued at meetings of the committee that Germany should be deprived of war-making industries , though not to the extent of the ‘ pastoralisation ’ proposed by Henry Morgenthau , the US Secretary of the Treasury , and accepted for a time by Churchill and Roosevelt at their meeting at Quebec in September 1944 . |
| 11 | The three horses on the highway had been caught and tethered by the time Michael came back through the trees , leading the roan . |
| 12 | I felt angry and humiliated at the time of the argument but I can guess at how he must have felt . |
| 13 | I was climbing up all these stairs to the office and thought by the time I get to her , I 'll be too puffed to dance properly . |
| 14 | She was there to answer when Cleopatra asked her who she was laughing at , and gone by the time she was supposed to say , ‘ Heigho ! |
| 15 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 16 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |
| 17 | Emma , committed to the cause of her son Harthacnut in the succession dispute of 1035 – 40 , and exiled for a time to Flanders as a result , seemingly wished to forget her previous marriage to Æthelred . |
| 18 | In this Manifesto , signed by Malcolm Bradbury , Richard Hoggart , Ted Hughes and Raymond Williams , among a list of forty-three , and published in the Times Higher Educational Supplement , we said that ‘ Students of English at polytechnics and universities often write dull , secondhand discursive prose and are taught to do nothing else . ’ |
| 19 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |