Example sentences of "[adj] time [pron] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long exciting time we caught the train and went home tired but happy . |
| 2 | After this time they doubled the amount of current and found that the energy books almost balanced . |
| 3 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 4 | This time they saw the church in all its Moorish exuberance . |
| 5 | This time they had a big Rottweiler with them . |
| 6 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 7 | ‘ This time we pinpointed the English dangermen and concentrated on an eight-man push at every scrum . |
| 8 | This time we had a slide quiz . |
| 9 | This time we looked a couple of yards short and won . ’ |
| 10 | Picking up the rod determined not to make a hash of it this time I engaged the bail arm and belted the take . |
| 11 | ‘ This time I had a crush on a woman at work , ’ he said . |
| 12 | By this time I had a pretty firm image of the tables in my mind . |
| 13 | Now , I am so thankful I stayed longer , for in this time I had an unforgettable experience . |
| 14 | This proved to be a blessing , for this time I noticed a piece of fabric , like the backing of a sticking plaster , wedged in the tubing that connected the cylinder to the burner . |
| 15 | During this time I noticed a definite regression in his mental state . |
| 16 | This time I took the temperature without incident . |
| 17 | Then I went out again , chequebooking in the West End , got arrested again and this time I got a six-month sentence . |
| 18 | During this time I browsed the book-stores , and resisted the temptation to steal two or three interesting volumes , among them De Gaulle 's foreign policy monograph . |
| 19 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 20 | I decided to go to sea again , and this time I joined a ship sailing to the islands in the South Pacific Ocean . |
| 21 | This time it took no formal action . |
| 22 | Minutes later , Jack and Ho heard Ray Shepherd 's voice again , but this time it had a more hectoring tone and they knew he was addressing the meeting . |
| 23 | But this time it had a note of desperation which rendered it almost novel even to those who had heard it so often . |
| 24 | This time it had a more obviously proletarian presence , with working artisans and labourers in evidence . |
| 25 | This time it made the trip from West Croydon to Sutton and passengers included the Mayors of Sutton and Cheam and of Beddington and Wallington . |
| 26 | By this time it carried the advertisements of a well-known whisky , and had lost some of its charisma . |
| 27 | Last year at about this time it produced the admirable Victorian Newcastle painter Ralph Hedley ; this winter it is showing in ‘ A Romance with the North East ’ Rober and Isa ( Thompson ) Jobling , who lived and worked there until the 1920s producing powerful and poetic images of its countryside coast and people . |
| 28 | Another well-timed cover-drive beat the fielder and this time it reached the boundary . |
| 29 | This time it wanted the confused , drum-like fullness of great numbers . |
| 30 | This time he spent the off-season working instead of talking . |