Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The delay was with the approval of District Council at the request of the developer , who asked for time to consider if Hill could be improved . |
| 2 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 3 | Two suitably romantic leaders , who escaped in time , now emerged , the 26-year-old third Earl of Derwentwater , a grandson of Charles II by one of his mistresses , who had been brought up with the Old Pretender at St Germain , and become a major landowner in Westmorland , and Thomas Forster , an MP for Northumberland . |
| 4 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 5 | A General Alexander — a Yorkshire acquaintance of Aitken and an authority on Nigerian affairs who had from time to time provided Aitken , in his journalistic capacity , with snippets of information about the war — had been used by the British government , because of his knowledge of Nigeria and the military position , as an unofficial adviser in these matters . |