Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain had obviously driven in some time during the night and the dried splashes were clearly visible on the tiled floor . |
| 2 | But the system of fixed exchange rates established after the war and based on the dollar had already disintegrated by that time . |
| 3 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 4 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 5 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 6 | A reminder letter and questionnaire were sent 6 weeks later to subjects who had not replied by this time . |
| 7 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 8 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 9 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 10 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 11 | ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join . |
| 12 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 13 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
| 14 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 15 | You had n't spoken for some time . |
| 16 | It was a no-win situation for the unfortunate air crews taking part , and it would have been understandable if morale had completely cracked at that time . |