Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 2 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 3 | I replied , describing the state it was in at that time , and what I hoped to do with it . |
| 4 | Most peers are disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons ( see below , pp.76–80 ) and it was thus at one time the case that a promising political career could be cut short by the involuntary inheritance of a title . |
| 5 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately it was just at this time that Tyndale 's unfavourable comments on the royal divorce came to the King 's attention , and Vaughan was sharply told to end the discussions . |
| 7 | It was just before closing time when a girl dropped an envelope in my lap . |
| 8 | Now she was here and it was just like old times : in the darkroom with Maggie , working on filthy pictures . |
| 9 | It was just like old times . |
| 10 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |
| 11 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 12 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 13 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 14 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 15 | Outside certain fields of natural science like chemistry and probably mathematics , which they clearly dominated , their extremely high qualitative achievement was perhaps less obvious , because ( unlike the early nineteenth century ) there was not at this time a specifically German genre of natural philosophy . |
| 16 | It was not until some time later that the drawings were found to have been stolen . |
| 17 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 18 | It was not until some time around the 18th century that it was firmly back where it is now . |
| 19 | It was generally at this time that the user began to think about ‘ coming off ’ and the , usually long , association with the various medical and social agencies began . |
| 20 | And if Andrew 's approach was humorous and satirical can we afford to believe that the " new concept " of love in adultery was ever at any time seriously advocated ? |
| 21 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 22 | Along with many other villages of later times , Ticketone was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and was still at this time the property of the church of St John . |
| 23 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 24 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 25 | It was probably at some time during that same period when the dawning need to rely on a ‘ god ‘ first disturbed the developing human being , that he started to enjoy pleasures which were not the result of simply satisfying the desires associated with his physical evolution . |
| 26 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 27 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 28 | Er the company was also at that time , looking to expand anyway into Europe . |
| 29 | The Cathedral Hotel , next door , was also at one time in the hands of the Wilkes family and it first came to my notice when an extra floor was added in 1922/23 . |
| 30 | James II was also at this time seeking to win some support from the Nonconformists . |