Example sentences of "not [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was , the music was made for his , that time , you know what I mean , it 's not for this time . |
| 2 | Since it presumably means we will not for some time to come be seeing her again stretched horizontal on a sun lounger . |
| 3 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 4 | ‘ Not for some time but we are not worried , miss , it 's not unusual for the gentry , if you will excuse me saying so , to keep folks waiting for payment . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Not for some time . |
| 6 | It was not for some time , and after some acquaintance , that she got round to thinking that one of the most charming features of Clelia 's room was its sense of prolonged nursery associations . |
| 7 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 8 | ‘ Not for some time , Chieh Hsia . |
| 9 | She was so absorbed that it was not for some time that she realized that the sea on her left was no longer the water of the estuary but had become the ocean . |
| 10 | The tree was in silhouette , but there seemed to be flames in one of its branches ; flames that licked high , then guttered and were gone , only to flare again … as if a fire was coming and going … as if the fire was not of this time , but spent brief minutes in the tree , then flared in another world , before revisiting the winter branches . |
| 11 | Not in this time of perestroika . ’ |
| 12 | It was not until some time later that the drawings were found to have been stolen . |
| 13 | There was always plenty of activity here , and so much so , that it was not until some time had elapsed , that a rumbling from above brought the GC to his attention . |
| 14 | It was not until some time around the 18th century that it was firmly back where it is now . |
| 15 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 16 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 17 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |
| 18 | I had not at that time met any Americans but the sight of them prowling through what was now my favourite town , talking in their unfamiliar accents to anyone who would listen , rubbed me up the wrong way . |
| 19 | While Davidge could not at that time be more specific , he observed , ‘ the appointment of Sir Anthony is intended to stimulate discussion and to help us rexamine all existing and potential services ’ . |
| 20 | He had not at that time known that specific request for permission to shoot at Yugoslavs in support of Military Government had come from Gen Keightley at 5 Corps in Austria . |
| 21 | I had not at that time ever been to India . |
| 22 | Mr who is on my right , and who was previously the chairman of the Southern Area Planning Committee of Ryedale District Council , but not at that time , which explains that erm a change was in hand . |
| 23 | Not at that time . |
| 24 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 25 | Not at that time , they did n't no . |
| 26 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 27 | not at that time I recall |
| 28 | More importantly , the Fellowship gave me the opportunity to study a subject of my choice at a university of my choice : so ( who would not at that time ? ) |
| 29 | No , not at that time of night . |
| 30 | She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing . |