Example sentences of "in [adj] time [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you want to put in highlights at the end of your painting , the paint will tend to sink in each time you put on a pale colour if the paper is still damp . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In that time they have built up a force of one hundred and fifty vehicles and three hundred and forty staff . |
| 4 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 5 | In that time we have found out how it is produced , how it is metabolized and , now that its receptor has been cloned , we are beginning to understand how it acts to release calcium . |
| 6 | The flares you fired thirty six years ago are still burning brightly today , for in that time we have not had a world war . |
| 7 | twenty , fifteen , whatever years , whatever years , and in that time you 've got to be pretty sure that you can do that |
| 8 | And in that time you see , the steamer did n't come so often . |
| 9 | In that time you rehearse every skill you need to skipper a small cruiser in flotilla in Greece . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In this time I have noted the steady increase of people pursuing this activity and an equally heavy resistance to the sport by landowners and fishing groups . |
| 13 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 14 | In troubled times I go into a church and sit alone , rather than go to Mass every day . ’ |
| 15 | In calmer times I try to analyse , weighing up the pros and cons . |
| 16 | But then er in recent times she stay in the farm so |
| 17 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 18 | In modern times we have effectively eliminated possibility 3 by incorporating it within our scheme : Quantum mechanics is essentially a theory of what we do not know and can not predict . |
| 19 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 20 | The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got . |
| 21 | But traditionally such people would have done , er and perhaps in earlier times you know , er maybe Mrs Thatcher does say some prayers , I do n't know , but maybe prayers would be said . |