Example sentences of "of [pron] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable . |
| 2 | The photos do not include very many which have not been seen before , some of them many times ; and captions are virtually innocent of any identification or discussion of the uniforms and personal equipment illustrated , which is puzzling . |
| 3 | We used a wages robbery for a couple of them some time later . |
| 4 | So so that 's I 'll give you some of them this time |
| 5 | Two of them this time , both carrying holstered pistols . |
| 6 | 15 million people did it in 1985 — will you be one of them this time ? |
| 7 | Only because it 's one of my all time favourite riffs … |
| 8 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 9 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 10 | A river flowed near to Bavduin , and each night the dead came to the water on their journey back to the cold earth of their own times and lands . |
| 11 | Finally governors recognised that a fully established committee structure might involve an unreasonable amount of their own time . |
| 12 | Indeed I detect a genuine and growing support for Agriculture in schools , evident from pupils and their parents , whenever leadership is given by an enthusiastic teacher , and I have met a number of these , giving freely of their own time and sometimes of their limited funds as well . |
| 13 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 14 | He argues that his work is not Edwardian in projection , that his pictures borrow something from other eras , but have a buoyant vitality that is of their own time . |
| 15 | Secondly , since 1975 , people who conduct their own litigation have become entitled to costs in respect of their own time and effort spent preparing and presenting the case . |
| 16 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 17 | Yet Les Noces was also of its own time , 1923 . |
| 18 | This is all the time there is for Private Members ' Bills unless , as occasionally happens , the government takes them over and allots some of its own time to them . |
| 19 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 20 | As a woman who is young in years by our own standards but who is thought old by those of her own time . |
| 21 | She gave much of her own time to helping those encountering problems with their studies through individual tuition at her home , frequently during the summer months in preparation for autumn courses . |
| 22 | So Johnny had been afforded a glimpse of her own time , had he ? |
| 23 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 24 | The hands that caught hold of her this time , though , did not pass beyond the bounds of normal assistance . |
| 25 | It could be useful to remind Stuart Baxter of it some time in the future . |
| 26 | I am told by an ex-employee of ICI that there was a curious example of the effects of it some time back . |
| 27 | No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time . |
| 28 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 29 | Picking up the rod determined not to make a hash of it this time I engaged the bail arm and belted the take . |
| 30 | He left a diary of his own times and a large manuscript collection on Puritan history , housed in Dr Williams ' Library , London . |