Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 2 | This pantomime went on for some time and , inevitably , the emotional strain brought on a resurgence of his symptoms . |
| 3 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 4 | This was unsuccessful , but fighting continued there for some time . |
| 5 | The lame recital went on for some time , while Jerome , piteously small and shrunken and wretched , kneeled in Rhun 's supple , generous arm , with that radiant , silent face beside him , to point searing differences . |
| 6 | There are many other more elaborate braids and edgings which are great fun to knit if you keep your machine set up at this time of year , as it is a good time to play with new ideas and perhaps to knit enough to edge that beautiful Chanel-type jacket you are going to knit later , but the simple knitted binding or a simple rouleau takes a lot of beating and always loos fashionable , elegantly simple and stylish . |
| 7 | The accident rate rose notably from that time ( Labour Research , 1987b ) — a rate not helped by BT 's cut in its safety officers which started in 1985 . |
| 8 | I draw on feeling banked up for that time . |
| 9 | Akhenaten either died or was murdered , we 're not , we do n't know , we do n't know how er he was a very peculiar man as I 'll explain in the lectures er physically , very strange probably as a result of inbreeding and erm the old religion re-established itself there was never a return to monotheistic sun worship , but er all its hypothesis is that , that since we know the exodus occurred round about this time and since we know that Judaism too is a religion of a single-minded monotheist you know I 'm the law by God I shall have no other gods before me , it says in the Bible full stop . |
| 10 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 11 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 12 | Her aunt 's house was all of seven miles away and darkness fell early at this time of the year . |
| 13 | Moreover , the latest available data on more local patterns of employment growth in the 1980s indicate the sharpness of the boundary between the two parts of the country , because they show that , though more rural parts of the North performed well at this time , the greatest concentration of rapid job growth occurred south of a line running from the Severn estuary to Lincolnshire ( figure 8.1 ) . |