Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 32 | The family were Presbyterians , and her conscious effort to acquire an education began at the age of six , when she heard a sermon she could not understand , and from that time she adopted a plan for acquiring information through asking the meaning of every new word she heard . |
| 33 | And from this time I knew I had to give up so many things — my sailing and so on — but the music came back to me a hundred times better . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore . |
| 37 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
| 38 | These continuous blasts may last for several hours , and in that time they eject large volumes of ash , which is always new magmatic material , rather than shattered bits and pieces of old rock . |
| 39 | And in that time I really only ever had one proper job and that was for two weeks . |
| 40 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
| 41 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 42 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 43 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
| 44 | I was with him constantly for a whole year and in that time I never saw him with anyone , man or woman . |
| 45 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 46 | It 's now ten years since he set up Some Bizzare , and in that time he has enticed Matt Johnson , You 've Got Foetus On Your Breath , Psychic TV , Einstuerzende Neubauten and Berlin-born cabaret singer Anges Bernelle into his entourage . |
| 47 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 48 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 49 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
| 50 | Each exercise only lasts 15 seconds , and in that time you must complete as many repetitions as possible . |
| 51 | And in that time you were in receipt of benefit were you ? |
| 52 | And in that time you see , the steamer did n't come so often . |
| 53 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |
| 54 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 55 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
| 56 | A primitive shading is found on a few vases of the generation before , by the Brygos Painter for instance to indicate the roundness of shields ; and in this time it appears , very sparingly , both in red-figure and on another class of Attic vase which we have not yet considered , those with a white slip . |
| 57 | Now it is celebrating its 18th year with Citalia and over that time it has consistently been a most popular resort hotel . |
| 58 | Your Royal Highness , it is , it is , it is interesting that when I attended the Annual General Meeting last year of the Boats Organization , the fact that I said that yachtsmen was a Con Conservation Body as well surprised them and since that time we have having collaboration with them er more and more and this is to be welcomed because we all want to sail in nice surroundings . |
| 59 | We wrote to the Secretary of State after you passed that motion so it appears from the correspondence we have back from the Secretary of State that they are bloody minded on this one and they 're going to , he 's going to support , press on with the imposition of V A T and since that time we we see he 's well supported by the cabinet . |
| 60 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |