Example sentences of "time it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 2 | At other times it seemed near to irresponsible madness . |
| 3 | Three times it did this , then , satisfied , it flashed — electric blue — into the reeds and disappeared . |
| 4 | Sometimes it just rushed round things ; other times it flattened all in its path then picked up the debris and flung it away . |
| 5 | This outlook emboldened Iran to repudiate the military provisions of the 1921 Soviet-Persian Treaty at the time it abrogated Iranian membership in CENTO . |
| 6 | But this time it went wrong and Ms Kennedy , who plays a republican activist in the drama , had to receive treatment for an eye injury . |
| 7 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 8 | This time it looked easy . |
| 9 | Most of the time it looked dead . |
| 10 | Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at |
| 11 | Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at |
| 12 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 13 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 14 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 15 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 16 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 17 | and it 's never got really bad , the only time it got bad was |
| 18 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 19 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 20 | But this time it seemed worse . |
| 21 | For a long time it seemed impossible to refer to Communists without using the words ‘ conspiracy ’ and ‘ sons of bitches ’ . |
| 22 | For girls who had delayed making their pregnancy public , at the time it seemed impossible to tell anyone , but afterwards they all wished that they had . |
| 23 | At the time it seemed one of the better right hands I 've ever thrown — from the shoulder , punching not at but through the target , with half-pivot that threw all my weight behind the blow . |
| 24 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 25 | The forces of federation and supranationalism were in disarray , and at the time it seemed natural to conclude that the whole momentum of European integration was lurching to a halt , in particular because the EDC debacle had opened up a rift between France and West Germany . |
| 26 | At the same time it recommended enhanced powers for chief executives to arbitrate in sensitive political matters : for example , applying the rules for party balance on committees , determining whether an individual council has a need to inspect a document or attend a meeting , and deciding which chief officers should attend party group meetings . |
| 27 | At the same time it offered great entertainment for the onlookers . |
| 28 | The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits . |
| 29 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 30 | At the time it felt brave . |