Example sentences of "in [adj] time [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | In that time they carried two and a half thousand tonnes of food and medical supplies saving countless lives . |
2 | In that time they 'd sealed off the room and the hotel . |
3 | In that time they saw no movement , no living or dead person , no sign of violence ; nothing , but the ordered emptiness of a darkened and dead ship . |
4 | In that time we managed to talk to many broadcasters , primarily European ( which reflects where we see our main market potential and the fact that MIPCOM did seem to have greater numbers of European broadcasters than from any other significant territory ) . |
5 | In that time we had won 3 and drawn 2 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | It was almost a year since he had been there and in that time nothing had been done , nothing had been touched . |
8 | The whole performance had taken no more than a minute , but in that time he 'd succeeded in turning the Chamber 's table into a fish-market gutter . |
9 | In that time he had performed group sex with his millionaire businessmen , turned on sex starved women who have never had an orgasm |
10 | It estimates that in that time it cut its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 per cent . |
11 | In that time she had to out-glare three Renaults , four Cortinas and a Volkswagen . |
12 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
13 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
14 | I lasted eighteen months before packing it in , and in that time I saw a lot of disappointed people . |
15 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
16 | We flew for an hour and in that time I completed a reel of film in my camera . |
17 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
18 | Now , I am so thankful I stayed longer , for in this time I had an unforgettable experience . |
19 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
20 | But we can scarcely doubt , for all that , that Elizabeth must have gone to her death not a little exhausted by the duties of a wife and mother in hard times which found out the slightest weakness in every individual 's constitution . |
21 | In post-Vedic times they became : |
22 | ( I recently watched a more formal version of this technique where a class of adolescents was invited to direct the teacher in how to appear as a King of a small Greek State in classical times who had lost his power to a conquering neighbouring state but who did not want to lose his dignity . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings . |
25 | Er and so er although in security struggles in the event of war we find er that these wars tend to become total wars , and we 've had two of these in the present century , historically speaking in recent times we had another one , anyone know what it was ? |
26 | But you had a bit of flare up A You flared up in last time you had came off it , did n't you ? |
27 | By then La Rotonde , which had opened in 1911 , had become the place for artists to meet , and every morning Nina met Modi selling his drawings for five francs ( although in bad times he reduced the price to three francs ) . |