Example sentences of "in [pron] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 2 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 3 | In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . |
| 4 | In my time they erm , the sugar beet , sugar beet pulp . |
| 5 | I said to her , I said : ‘ In my time they called it idleness , ’ I said , ‘ if it was n't stupidity . ’ |
| 6 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 7 | We missionaries were rather slow to respect this return to the home village by a second funeral service , though in my time it became more acceptable . |
| 8 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 9 | I think they call it fire safety now , in my time it was fire prevention but now fire safety which is probably a better word for it . |
| 10 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 11 | Oh no you Well again er as I say I I 'm speaking in in my own time , er and in my time you were left school before you started in the yard at all , aye . |
| 12 | In their time they were regarded as great magicians who brought prosperity to these parts . |
| 13 | In their time there was a general recognition of an ultimately important spiritual dimension to life that is lacking in our own — a sense of the universe given meaning by God so that man 's words interpenetrate with the Word , that whole transcendent meaning so fragmented and distorted by the Fall . |
| 14 | I have proved this theory wrong to my own satisfaction having kept females together for a matter of years , in which time they were never mated . |
| 15 | This buys them an extra round while Thadeus hesitates , in which time they must come up with something more to prevent him from attacking after this initial hesitation . |
| 16 | He ends up serving Laban for twenty years , in which time he has his wages changed ten times ( and that does not mean continually increased , either ) . |
| 17 | And er you do you do probation for three months in in which time you 're vetted thoroughly . |
| 18 | In which time I have been a victim of the clique set , if your face does n't fit , your training can wait ; also the ‘ Hooray Henry ’ brigade , the difference between the men and the boys is the price of their toys , types . |
| 19 | The target was demonstrably stronger than the signal from the 24-cm calibration sphere , and we tracked it for 68 seconds , in which time it seemed to dive from 69 m to 114 m ( a speed of0–8 m/s or just under 3 km/h ) . |
| 20 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 21 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 22 | But in its time it represented a real advance . |
| 23 | Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date . |
| 24 | A new head will , more than likely , face unfavourable comparisons with his predecessor in whose time there were never naughty children or wet playtimes , all teachers were perfect and parents , government and headteachers stayed out of class room business leaving teaching to teachers . |
| 25 | On account of this , very many cases from all over the world began to be brought to his audience so that he concluded several major cases in his time which were started long before . |
| 26 | The other has about him a ring of nostalgic failure ; in his time everything was good , but it ended in failure both personally ( for Fróthi was killed ) and ideologically ( for Fróda 's son returned to the bad old ways of revenge and hatred , scorning peace-initiatives and even apparently his own desires ) . |
| 27 | In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works . |
| 28 | In his time he has fought more than 50 of them , killing three outright with a combination of striking techniques . |
| 29 | In his time he had been billed as the Sex Ton ( geddit ? ) , |
| 30 | In his time he was a superstar . |