Example sentences of "time [pers pn] was [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 2 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 3 | At that time I was greatly influenced , as were many in the U.K. , by linguistic theory , then called ‘ scale and category grammar ’ , later renamed ‘ systemic linguistics ’ . |
| 4 | Another time I was so fascinated by her clicking needles that she offered to teach me to knit as well . |
| 5 | Oh , I can see now that it was unworthy and beside the point but at the time I was so exasperated with the man and his perfidy that any ammunition would have done . |
| 6 | This last time I was better prepared . |
| 7 | The irresponsibility of this helped me to escape the force of the problems , but at the same time I was constantly troubled by suspicion . |
| 8 | At the time she was supposedly killed , she was in a combat zone , monitoring a Salvadorean air force raid . |
| 9 | Her Christmas show proved she has not lost her touch and it 's time she was fully acknowledged as the comic genius she is . |
| 10 | ‘ Madonna likes being in the eye of the storm but this time she was safely tucked away in New York . ’ |
| 11 | She was summoned down in exactly fifteen minutes and this time she was more prepared . |
| 12 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 13 | Later on this might have led to complaints about the possibility of corruption ; at the time it was simply seen as evidence that politicians were committing themselves fully to their work . |
| 14 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 15 | At that time it was not realised that the investigating team were already in possession of the evidence necessary to determine the cause of the accident and it was entirely fortuitous that the body that was removed from under the pathologist 's nose was not one containing vital evidence . |
| 16 | [ Ascariasis in man : The type species , Ascaris lumbricoides , occurs in man , and at one time it was not differentiated from A. suum , so that the pig was thought to present a zoonotic risk for man . |
| 17 | The ambulance arrived at 2.36pm , by which time it was not needed . |
| 18 | This time it was widely recognised that a change in policy was necessary if it was to be achieved . |
| 19 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 20 | At the time it was widely believed that Sugar would not be returning to operational flying , as the following press release issued at the time seemed to indicate : |
| 21 | At the same time it was widely known that unemployment relief , while inadequate , could only be paid at all as a result of direct subsidy from the Reich . |
| 22 | At the time it was widely held that the early parts of the visual system acted like a closed-circuit television , with the eye acting as the camera and the visual cortex acting as the TV monitor . |
| 23 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 24 | Although it later transpired that the RSSPCC were contracted by the Social Work Department to remove and question the South Ronaldsay children , at the time it was generally understood that Orkney 's own social workers were mainly involved . |
| 25 | By this time it was generally considered that the forests were anachronistic and unprofitable . |
| 26 | Quite often the form was outdated by the time it was finally authorized and the clerks would tell the luckless petitioner to start all over again . |
| 27 | But although the case , and particularly the sentence , shocked the public at the time it was soon forgotten . |
| 28 | By the time it was eventually closed in 1988 , new investors had brought the total to £116 million . |
| 29 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 30 | At the time it was poorly lit , with no heating , and it was soon being equally definitely described as ‘ dirty ’ . |