Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 2 | I know what that man owes to Harry , and what to me , and I have kept the account , and in good time I shall take what is due . |
| 3 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 4 | This occurs because the waves are not quite in step : sometimes they reinforce each other and at other times they cancel each other out — in the same way that 1 + ( -1 ) = 0 . |
| 5 | Renaissance drawings of machines , and even some of those from the eighteenth century , sometimes display an ignorance of how the device must really have worked ; and at other times they are fudged , so that important features can not be seen because the artist did not understand them . |
| 6 | At times you can easily ‘ con ’ one into your net , and at other times you find they are less gullible . |
| 7 | Some mornings he 's suffering from what quite obviously is a hangover and at other times he appears to have a stomach upset . |
| 8 | Sometimes it felt close by and at other times it was only a distant echo . |
| 9 | Sometimes the wind swings steadily round over a period of time , and at other times it blows steadily in a curve . |
| 10 | Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough , but suddenly appears in the limelight . |
| 11 | Sometimes this is very sensitive — such as the details of complicated family or personal difficulties , and at other times it is as simple , yet vital , as whom to contact is the Home Help calls and receives no answer to the doorbell . |
| 12 | But at some times it 's apparent and at other times it 's not . |