Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cells ( 50000 ) in serum free medium were added to each coated well and incubated for various times at 36°C . |
| 2 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 3 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 4 | He asked about proceedings at Central Strike Headquarters and lingered for some time on the subject although he received no information . |
| 5 | Togo had a Catholic monthly , Mia Holo , that first appeared during German rule and survived into modern times . |
| 6 | Footballers grew old and fell on hard times , so perhaps it was the same for horses . |
| 7 | I found the sexism and heterosexism of the Black movement difficult to cope with and felt at that time that I was n't considered Black enough either in my colour or my politics . |
| 8 | She had come to London after the war as a music student , and felt by this time she was neither Canadian or English . |
| 9 | She thought and thought for some time , and then she smiled . |
| 10 | His feet began to tap more and more loudly beneath the desk and his jaw quivered more and more violently as Blanche put her side of the story and pleaded for more time to finish the investigation . |
| 11 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 12 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 13 | Ur was amongst the cities they conquered and sacked at this time . |
| 14 | She got up slowly from the table , washed up the mug , and stood for some time absolutely still , staring . |
| 15 | As late Anglo-Saxon rulers were often required to give undertakings of this sort at their coronations , Cnut was possibly crowned and anointed at this time . |