Example sentences of "did [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 2 | It did for a time seem to explain the trajectories of development and underdevelopment in some countries of Latin America , but when it was applied to Africa and Asia it was much less successful . |
| 3 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 4 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 5 | President Scalfaro on July 30 described Scotti 's action as a sign that " factional interests " had been allowed to take priority , coming as it did at a time of national crisis . |
| 6 | ‘ Part of his problem was that he was just doing what everybody else did at the time , and it killed him . |
| 7 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 8 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 9 | The question is : In saying ‘ I meant … ’ , when one has been misunderstood , is one saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ ? |
| 10 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
| 11 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 12 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 13 | I do n't know why but I see that more clearly now than I ever did at the time . |
| 14 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
| 15 | But it did at the time appear rather a , the last thing |
| 16 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
| 17 | And the whole book is really about er the Versailles conference in a way , is n't it , and about why he behaved the way he did at the time . |
| 18 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
| 19 | Erm the effect was that that er on on on on the assessment we did at the time , that it would n't have affected flows on the A sixty one in the centre of Harrogate . |
| 20 | I did at the time erm I no longer am authorised to carry . |