Example sentences of "time [adv] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were the only times when we used a bit of coal . |
| 2 | Noting the times when you get a bite or catch fish is especially useful for night fishing , for you soon learn which are the productive periods and which are the dead times . |
| 3 | The times when I see a swing-tip being used on a fast river , with the tip fully straightened , and therefore its usefulness cancelled out , is unbelievable . |
| 4 | And at that time nearly everybody had a bed with a mattress made of straw , and on top of this mattress , straw mattress they used to have what they call a tick , flock , flock tick . |
| 5 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 6 | My distress when this bombshell was dropped must have left its mark , for some time later I received a letter enclosing a card signed by a number of Australian cricketers , including Bradman , at a private dinner party . |
| 7 | A short time later it had a change of heart , however , and indicted the publisher-cum-bookseller Edmund Curll for selling Venus in the Cloister , or the Nun in her Smock which was a spicy tale of lesbian nuns , first published in France in 1682 . |
| 8 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know what kind of madness overtook me , ’ he said , ‘ but a little time ago I made a contract with somebody to have her killed . ’ |
| 10 | This time virtually everybody raised a hand . |
| 11 | The one remembered was the time when we had a display comparing ‘ steers ’ against ‘ bulls ’ and their relevant daily liveweight gains . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it seems to me that this is a time when we have a chance to examine the utility of A levels in their present form , a chance that may have been missed by the terms of reference of the Higginson Committee . |
| 13 | Pending the time when we have a balance of men and women in this Chamber — a matter on which I shall expound next Tuesday afternoon , when I hope that many of my colleagues will support the concept of more women in this House — does my right hon. Friend agree that public consciousness of the lack of female representation of women 's views in our national life is now very high ? |
| 14 | You are entering the market for the first time when you write a letter about yourself to either agent , casting director , producer or director . |
| 15 | And then there came a time when he felt a pride in the deed , in the courage , the audacity , the resolution which had made it possible . |
| 16 | I mean if he was going to attack me , he 'd surely do it at some time when he had a reason to be angry . |
| 17 | Another trooper fell out of line , and this time when he got a hand to the wooden rail at the side of the bridge he collapsed across it . |
| 18 | Prima facie these are the rules in force at the time when he became a member . |
| 19 | At the time when he became a professor , his reputation probably depended largely on his studies of the capillary circulation and of the blood cells concerned with defence against bacterial invasion . |
| 20 | Then disaster struck for the second time when he pulled a tendon in his left leg , an injury that has ended many a greyhound 's racing career . |
| 21 | She was studying in Florence at the time when she spotted a trend among Florentine women for a drawstring leather duffel bag . |
| 22 | That doubt , however , was set at rest at lunch time when she got a message from Mrs. Mott . |