Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 2 | NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects . |
| 3 | Pick Systems Inc has recognised for some time that it will have to concentrate on the database side of Pick 's personality in order to survive , but currently only around 40% of sales comes from Pick for Unix , with a few percent going to the MD-DOS implementation and the native Intel Corp iAPX-86 implementation accounting for the biggest part of the business . |
| 4 | AN EPIC battle over a five-a-side complex has gone into extra time after protestors lodged 1,000 letters of objection . |
| 5 | A great deal has happened in that time and I have enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 6 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 7 | I can stand in front of the screen , I can look at the simulations , I can stop them whenever I want to stop them and look at them , it gives me ideas about how the buildings might have looked at that time and it gives me a whole range of variations as to as to what can be done in terms of their reconstructions . |
| 8 | It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm . |
| 9 | I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong . |
| 10 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 11 | She had guessed by that time that , since he had n't yet stated why he 'd waited an hour to see her , he was saving what he 'd come to tell her until they were inside her flat . |
| 12 | we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other . |
| 13 | ‘ Like nothing you 've seen in prime time or on God 's earth , ’ Time magazine raved . |
| 14 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 15 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |
| 16 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 17 | and I , I 've felt at that time and since I went on too early . |
| 18 | Fujimori had promised at that time that he would wipe out Sendero by the end of his mandate in 1995 . |
| 19 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 20 | The wind had freshened by this time and was causing some choppy waves , so we pressed on to try and finish the circuit planned before counting became impossible . |
| 21 | Most of the other students had foregathered by this time and were awaiting their final briefing from their tutor . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |
| 23 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 24 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 25 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 26 | It was possible to think of the episode in a detached sort of way , she found with relief , as though it had happened in another time and place to someone else . |
| 27 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 28 | Both sides had agreed in principle in May 1990 to the creation of a UN mission [ see p. 37449 ] but had specified at that time that its establishment was conditional on the agreement of a ceasefire . |
| 29 | Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk . |
| 30 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |