Example sentences of "time [coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a husband or a boyfriend , whatever , was out in the road at this time and looked like that , we want them to come forward . ’ |
| 2 | It has its disadvantages in one 's daily life , and I remember now that I described this in At Mrs L 's — how Julia was like that and her family found it tiring and annoying , because she came to everything freshly and without preconceived opinions , and wasted time and came to odd conclusions because nothing was taken for granted . |
| 3 | As they passed him , he looked directly at Midnight for the first time and said with genuine feeling : ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 4 | Molla Ali el-Arabi became solely [ Mufti ] for the second time and died in 901 . |
| 5 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 6 | Once we were in New York at the same time and stayed in separate hotels . |
| 7 | ON May 13 , 1986 , we published an article entitled ‘ A force to be reckoned with ’ which mentioned factors likely to deter potential black recruits from joining the police force at that time and cited as one example ‘ the beating to death of a black Hell 's Angel by policemen ’ . |
| 8 | Bernard Allway , 55 , voted Tory last time but swung to Labour early on in the hustings in protest at the poll tax and the economy . |
| 9 | The tunes were in a slow waltz time but played with that characteristic thump which accentuates the first beat of the bar so strongly as to obliterate everything else , reducing any melodic line to a tribal dance . |
| 10 | They were withdrawn at that time but enacted in 1894 along with provisions ‘ to introduce local self-government into rural parishes ’ ( Redlich and Hirst 1958:216 ) . |