Example sentences of "[pron] time [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . |
| 2 | I said to her , I said : ‘ In my time they called it idleness , ’ I said , ‘ if it was n't stupidity . ’ |
| 3 | That 's where I served my time they did n't phew |
| 4 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 5 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 6 | We missionaries were rather slow to respect this return to the home village by a second funeral service , though in my time it became more acceptable . |
| 7 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 8 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 9 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 10 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 11 | But in its time it represented a real advance . |
| 12 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 13 | In her polemical riposte to those scholars and clerics and poets of her time who resisted women 's advancement in letters or other learning , Pizan flourishes a dramatic catalogue of female high achievers and heroines , from Judith to Circe . |
| 14 | The Uniates , who were found mainly in Transylvania , had some 1,700,000 adherents and 1,500 churches before their suppression in 1948 , after which time they operated underground with 500 clandestine priests , their 12 bishops having been put in prison , where all but two of them died . |
| 15 | Pakistan 's superiority in the circumstances was no secret by the second evening , by which time they led England by 68 with six wickets in hand . |
| 16 | The eggs are left to their own devices and will hatch after 10 to 18 days during which time they develop into larvae 5mm long . |
| 17 | This went on for three hours , by which time they 'd attracted a sizeable body of fans into the hotel foyer , much to the consternation of the management who had to call the police to break up the party . |
| 18 | The Masai moran customarily spent ten to fifteen years of warriorhood living communally , apart from their families and under the supervision of specially designated elders , in warrior villages , or manyattas , at the end of which time they married and settled down . |
| 19 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 20 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 21 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 22 | The cheeses are matured in a specially constructed humid cellar for 2½–3 months , during which time they lose a further 225–325g/8–12oz in weight and develop a mould or rind beneath the muslin . |
| 23 | The American clipper ships of the 1850 s , the famous ‘ soft-wood three skysail-yarders ’ , became water-soaked within about ten years by which time they had no doubt paid for themselves very handsomely . |
| 24 | In fact they did not host another major ball until Christmas 1983 , by which time they had learned from their mistakes . |
| 25 | Annual contracts continued to be issued until 1955 , by which time they had risen to £4.2s . |
| 26 | Because of the severity of the undernutrition most patients require ten to twelve weeks of in-patient treatment during which time they begin to eat normal meals . |
| 27 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 28 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 29 | Salmon and sea trout enter throughout the year and may remain 10 months before spawning , during which time they do not feed . |
| 30 | This year they celebrate 20 years together during which time they have flowered as one of the top dozen or so string quartets world wide . |