Example sentences of "time [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities were investigating certain matters that had occurred during the Terror , at which time no-one had been too concerned about violence in the streets and the occasional unexplained corpse . |
| 2 | For an appreciable time no-one spoke and Swayne began to be uneasy . |
| 3 | This time nothing went wrong . |
| 4 | It was almost a year since he had been there and in that time nothing had been done , nothing had been touched . |
| 5 | The data we collected leads inescapably to the conclusion that for most of the time nothing happens at all — this seems to be particularly the case in residential settings ( ibid. , p. 58 ) . |
| 6 | At first she 'd given no thought to missing for a month , putting it down to the trauma of losing Pa , but by the time nothing showed for the third month running there could be no doubt that the worst had happened . |
| 7 | Only this time nothing happened ; the reverser stayed deployed , continuing to drag the aircraft to the right . |
| 8 | For a long time nothing happened . |
| 9 | Oliver touched the toad again , but this time nothing happened . |
| 10 | Waste of time me cutting , of course ! |
| 11 | For the longest time everyone thought that people in bands were puppets and idiots . |
| 12 | Erm , we 're doing all about this in er E D S the other day and apparently from the pictures on the T V at the time everyone thought it was whole of Ethiopia that was starving , and it was only actually twenty five percent of the population . |
| 13 | Several trucks were damaged by their sumps hitting rocks , and by the time everyone had managed to back out and find the right route , the night was slipping away . |
| 14 | Gowing goes on to indicate the health hazard arising from the intense alpha activity of polonium at the Windscale site : ‘ Alpha handling procedures had to be greatly upgraded to deal with polonium , and for a time everyone had to work with respirators … |
| 15 | There was a buzz of excitement all around the room , but at the same time everyone had the same nervous look about their face . |
| 16 | At the same time everyone saw opportunities . |
| 17 | By the time everyone began to arrive the church looked wonderful . |
| 18 | Winter is the time everyone wants their summer collections shooting ; Miami is an exciting location and the light is great . ’ |
| 19 | This is the time everyone gathers for a special dinner , which is based on fish , and in keeping with Italian tradition eel is cooked and served in many homes . |
| 20 | For every time someone talks about ‘ piglets ’ , ‘ slags ’ and ‘ chicks ’ , the task of achieving equality for women is that much harder . |
| 21 | Coins and pots and pans and weapons and tools and horse tack jangled like a demented musical band , and each time someone fell , the clanging beast would sag , then lift the fallen back to their feet and sweep them on into the courtyard . |
| 22 | She did n't , actually , but if there was n't a proverb to fit then it was time someone wrote one . |
| 23 | Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back . |
| 24 | ‘ Time someone took that over , ’ he said aloud . |
| 25 | Is n't it about time someone took a long hard look at the laughable regulations on what riders wear and questioned whether they benefit the sport ? |
| 26 | It was high time someone took his young sister down a peg . |
| 27 | It 's just a special , because it 's a special fraction that we use a lot we just give it a special name and call it percentage , but any time someone says to you like er what 's , let's try this one , now you were saying about point seven five and things |
| 28 | I know , I know , I know I should n't be angry cos it 's not , you know , obviously you 're not gon na think every time someone says they fancy you you 're not gon na think oh God he 's lying , there 's no reason , you should n't ever think that I mean what they 're doing now is just making you into a paranoid wreck . |
| 29 | yeah in the same respect you should n't have to think that every time someone says they fancy you , you should n't have to think , you know , that it 's a joke at all . |
| 30 | Thus , if it is the first time someone tells you a particular genre of joke , you may not know the appropriate type of response . |