Example sentences of "the time [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time passed all too quickly but later all were able to see the resultant masks of heads and hands thus produced . |
| 2 | The only hard part about this operation was the regular watchkeeping split between our six-man crew throughout twenty four hours , but the time passed pleasantly enough at first . |
| 3 | As the time grew nearer , Shanti began to call me Molly , and I could hear her on the telephone telling her friends , ‘ I 'm going to meet my mother . ’ |
| 4 | The only things worth saving were a mulberry , a cherry plum and the Magnolia grandiflora which at the time came barely up to the window and is now heading for the roof . |
| 5 | A great many Greek politicians and officials who at the time said privately that they thought the thing was a nonsense heard themselves publicly using arguments which did not improve Greece 's reputation for honest debate . |
| 6 | It was the kind of thing that children at the time said constantly in the playground . |
| 7 | His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis . |
| 8 | But during the week immediately following the meeting two fortuitous things happened to the chemists that at the time looked too good opportunities to miss . |
| 9 | Good results were obtained by those who completed their courses and at least 74.3% had at the time progressed satisfactorily ( 460 students ) . |
| 10 | As is turned out , Gold Award winner Fairbrother 43 at the time had already done more than enough to guide his side towards a commanding score on a pitch where stroke play was never easy . |
| 11 | He thought that the time had perhaps come to do something about Lorrimer . |
| 12 | The second group , of those — even including some Party members — who had previously been apathetic or negatively disposed towards the Party , thought that the time had now come when they could air their feelings . |
| 13 | Perhaps the time had now come to change the emphasis to more efficient production . |
| 14 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 15 | The time had now come for Eric to go up into the Apennines on behalf of the Commission to pay and honour all those Italians , for the most part peasants , who had helped and in many cases saved the lives of escaping prisoners-of-war . |
| 16 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 17 | Once the war between France and the Vietminh had begun , the time had obviously passed when American operational decisions such as this would affect the fortunes of either side . |
| 18 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 19 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 20 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
| 21 | Bishop Goss of Liverpool at the time declared disgustedly that ‘ bishops who went to Rome as princes of the household to confer with their august Father will return like satraps dispatched to their provinces ’ . |
| 22 | Be positive , this could be a blessing in disguise , use the time gained wisely . |
| 23 | The time flew past and we got onto the ferry at 4.00pm and sailed at 5.00pm . |
| 24 | Ruth could feel the tightening of her heart as Fernando gathered her into his arms , his kisses more urgent as the time slipped perilously away . |
| 25 | Membership , it was said , never at any point rose above thirty and much of the time remained closer to nine or ten . |