Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 2 | I was slit-eyed and shivering by the time she was driven off . |
| 3 | The film both fulfils the Powell-Pressburger partnership 's aim to produce ‘ original stories , written for the screen , keeping pace with events and trying to put into action what people were thinking and saying at the time , ’ which is what the more obviously documentarist filmmakers were also trying to do , and articulates its own vision of the mystical forces in nature , culminating in the healing miracle that arrives for each of the three Canterbury pilgrims on their way to the cathedral . |
| 4 | That 's why we 've produced a database with development tools that gets new systems up and running in no time . |
| 5 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 6 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 7 | He read some of the German books , soothed by her solicitude and fancying for a time that he really was being impregnated with ideas about the Wall . |
| 8 | The Diocesan Advisory Committee and the local Planning Authority have given the go-ahead for a Faculty from the Chancellor of the Diocese to install a new heating system in St. John 's , and hopefully , it will be in and working by the time next winter comes . |
| 9 | Could be just the way you 're thinking and feeling at the time , allied to a little bit of luck , a natural rhythm . ’ |