Example sentences of "in the [noun] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 2 | ‘ I like to provide kids with pictures that contain lots of details so that they can find something new in the illustrations each time they look at them . |
| 3 | ‘ I like to provide kids with pictures that contain lots of details so that they can find something new in the illustrations each time they look at them . |
| 4 | I fucked you once — on the stairs , remember ? — when Alec blacked out in the kitchen that time . |
| 5 | One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard . |
| 6 | ABOVE Another scene in the Seychelles this time offering us tranquillity for very different reasons ; the rocks and the overshadowing branches indicate to us that here we can enjoy good observation of our surrounds without ourselves being observed . |
| 7 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 8 | Was there anything different in the dream this time ? |
| 9 | Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ? |
| 10 | Just 2 mallard ducks ; an adult male and female were caught in the decoy this time . |
| 11 | He was restless , impatient in the knowledge that time was limited . |
| 12 | Well I sa I said can he contact you later and he says well no not really , I said well I 'll tell him to give you a ring in the day some time tomorrow . |
| 13 | There was no gentleness in the caress this time , no tenderness in the way he raked his lips over hers , no subtlety intended when he thrust his tongue deep into her mouth , ignoring the muted whimpers of protest that died in her throat . |
| 14 | One-off dramatisations inevitably build around a central series of events which may be true to life in what they depict , but false in the way that time is telescoped ; in other words , they are played out in dramatic , not real time . |
| 15 | Or , as it was earlier in the year this time , there may not have been the necessity since the kits would have been smaller . |
| 16 | He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time . |
| 17 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 18 | Will you ? ’ rather than , ‘ Would you like me to take you out for a run in the car some time ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Dorothy , do you remember a story in the news some time ago about a chap who had somebody who was homeless living in the shed at the bottom of his garden ? ’ |
| 20 | In THE CITY THAT TIME FORGOT there is little hip hop , house or club culture . |
| 21 | In the morning some time . |
| 22 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 23 | He had given up his Saturday job in the supermarket some time back , so today he would just drive and drive , drifting along the miles of highway toward Edmonton . |
| 24 | " Do it in the provinces this time , " they urge . |
| 25 | The likelihood is that OSF will issue a Request For Technology in the area some time next year — none are planned for 1992 — and the stuff is n't expected to be complete until 1995 . |
| 26 | Peter gave him a key to come in the flat any time , you know , of course he did did n't he , he was |
| 27 | Come and see me in the studio any time after that and I 'll present you with a couple of bottles of duty-free in compensation for any hassle . |
| 28 | When the two of them appeared in the doorway some time later , several of the men shuffled along to make a welcoming space by the fire . |