Example sentences of "they [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 2 | Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick . |
| 3 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 4 | It was impossible for the garrison to fire upon them for some time without risk of injuring their neighbours along with their enemies . |
| 5 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 6 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |
| 7 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 8 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 9 | I watched them for some time , thinking smugly ‘ Ha ! |
| 10 | Heather had borrowed his binoculars , Mossop said , and studied the cottage through them for some time . |
| 11 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 12 | what we 're dealing with is a small group of MP s who thought there were some advantages in the Paignton amendment I 've discussed it very thoroughly with them for some time , and they agree that there were real difficulties about the Paignton amendment which I 've now addressed |
| 13 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 14 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 15 | erm it might be an id if you can find them for next time |
| 16 | So if you have a look at those and play with them for next time erm and make sure that you learn those two rules about if the signs are the same |
| 17 | Sheep would not safely graze nor would spring lambs nor calves ; the average farmer could hardly be expected to stock them for old times ' sake . |
| 18 | It may also be appropriate to explain that we have been using both systems , side by side , for over two years with files being transferred between them throughout that time . |
| 19 | Fermanagh trailed by two goals at three quarter time but levelled the game again to 12–12 to take them into extra time , and stole the extra goal needed for victory on the whistle winning 16–15 to give them the trophy for the second year . |
| 20 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 21 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 22 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 23 | What is new , according to DEC consultant engineer Lawrence Stewart , is that hardware now has the horse-power to drive them in real time . |
| 24 | But it is easier to show that the Aquitanians ' identity as a people was imposed on them rather than felt by them in Carolingian times . |
| 25 | ‘ Most of the er , dastardly Huns , I think you call them in this time period , seem to be up by the door to the General 's office which , according to Benny , is also a quicker route out . |
| 26 | Now unless we think that dreams can unravel very fast in the mind , much faster , and there is some evidence that that 's true actually , that dreams can in fact happen quicker than you could think of them in conscious time . |
| 27 | ( 12 ) The histories of cease and quit are less varied but the senses found for them in earlier times help explain some of the semantic differences that will be described below . |
| 28 | Having built up the reserves , it is prepared to use them in difficult times , and that is the right thing to do . |
| 29 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 30 | About one-third of pupils have traditionally attended them since that time . |