Example sentences of "the [adj] time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the project was dropped , the local community in the intervening time had er , picked the p the project up if you like , to provide a community er , resource in the low town area of Bridgenorth . |
| 2 | He knew what the boys were fighting for , and was sure that the public would give a right judgement when the proper time came . |
| 3 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 4 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 5 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 6 | Ten of the subjects like the one above ) had unambiguous accounts of cold water in their dreams , and in these subjects their dream reports showed a very good correlation ( in terms of the time that the action in the dream would have taken since the cold water spray ) with the actual time elapsed . |
| 7 | The extra time allowed Pat Lam to score an important try for New Zealand against his former Western Samoa teammates , prompting unsuccessful demands for a replay . |
| 8 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 9 | Coatings company International Lory has for the second time completed a year without a single lost day accident . |
| 10 | What is certain , however , is that Moltke , on 8 September , for the second time instructed a young staff officer , Lieutenant-Colonel Hentsch , to visit the command centres of all the German armies to assess the situation . |
| 11 | It was hardship in this , that er , perhaps the hardest time came after it when er , well it was called public assistance then , social security payments had to be payed back . |
| 12 | The worst time began in the autumn of 1810 , which year had up to then been one of peak earnings . |
| 13 | It sometimes happens , where the end of a session is imminent , that a government will seek to bargain with the opposition to avoid the demise of Bills , which would otherwise lapse , so as to avoid a total waste of the parliamentary time devoted to them . |
| 14 | They had passed out as a result of the good time had by all and did not come to until the evening . |
| 15 | Our budget er is at the present time overspent er something of the order of £70,000 , and we 're required by the Health Authority and by government , er to manage within our existing cash limited budget . |
| 16 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 17 | The mid-century gold rush to Australia added further to the supply of diamonds , but it was the development of the South African mines that for the first time brought a dramatic increase in the volume of production . |
| 18 | For structural reforms in third world countries , KfW for the first time granted a special loan of 1.7 billion DM to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) . |
| 19 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 20 | Senior British Government officials for the first time said yesterday that while a trip by two Tory strategists to the US during the campaign had been cleared by the Conservative Party chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , he had not told Mr Major . |
| 21 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 22 | Still the blueness when she groped back towards consciousness , but different now , as though the first time had just been her mind trying its new colours out . |
| 23 | The first time had been in anger — the second time something very different . |
| 24 | However , on the strength of findings by a joint historical commission formed in 1987 to resolve " blank spots " in Polish-Soviet relations , in March 1989 the Polish authorities for the first time had contradicted the official Soviet line and had openly accused the Soviet Union of responsibility [ see p. 36535 ] . |
| 25 | Representatives of West Berlin , which is not a constituent part of the Federal Republic , in both the Bundestag and Bundesrat have since May 1990 for the first time had full voting rights in both bodies . |
| 26 | It 'll change as you get older erm you wo n't necessarily just have that all the time we used to run these courses for students who had just come out of college and they were joining their company to work for the first first time and we used to do this and we used to find that many of the people who had just taken out the job for the first time had very very flat scores . |
| 27 | To rid herself of the nightmare voice that for the first time had spoken clearly and terribly in the full rational light of day . |
| 28 | As she returned the firm handclasp Lindsey 's smiling gaze for the first time took in the neat , wide-belted white dress , topped by a dark cardigan . |
| 29 | Trusts for the first time made it easy to create a right in a person who would have been a third party at civil law . |
| 30 | Alcalá Galiano 's explanation was simple : ‘ the repugnance of the rank and file against embarking for America ’ for the first time made soldiers and sergeants receptive to ‘ the sublime and generous ideas of their officers ’ . |