Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 2 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 3 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 4 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 6 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |