Example sentences of "time and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hearth had been very badly damaged in Georgian times and somebody had just dug a pit straight through the middle of it , perhaps for drainage . |
| 2 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 3 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 4 | The SSAFA is in close touch with the Department at all times and we listen to what it has to say about problems associated with housing and everything else . |
| 5 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 6 | Arran buses have printed timetables but , as in all islands , clocks are set to boat times and we had a long wait , an identikit American family and myself . |
| 7 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 8 | Er , only been there two or three times and we had miles to walk to the shop ! |
| 9 | She 's going to Russia for a week in February of all times and we want to have something really warm . |
| 10 | The peoples of these republics — Uzbeks , Kazakhs , Kirgiz , Tajiks and Turkmenis — are the descendants of the great Mongol empires of medieval times and they speak languages that are of Turkic ( or in the case of the Tajiks , Iranian ) origin . |
| 11 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |
| 12 | He 's written to them numerous times and they say what money . |
| 13 | ‘ I have contacted the Executive on behalf of people many times and they have told me they will do something about it . |
| 14 | Apparently the , he said they 've had one of them up in court twenty seven times and they have n't been able to prove it yet |
| 15 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 16 | She 'd seen the book a dozen times and he knew this perfectly well ; he was challenging her to go further , but Lucy now knew better . |
| 17 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 18 | His car had been damaged at least six times and he 'd moved his double glazing factory because of three attempted robberies . |
| 19 | He had quite a long way to walk to the bridge , but there was plenty of time ; he had taken the trouble to find out the train times and he had worked out at what time the train would arrive at the bridge — about 9pm — so he enjoyed his walk . |
| 20 | ‘ And the old man said that he had talked about my grandfather many times and he said : |
| 21 | He wrote what must have been the one of the shortest letters of all time , and he wrote back to the editor of The Times and he said , dear sir , in answer to your question what is wrong with the world |
| 22 | Brian is , because we 've been out a couple of times and he does , I mean if we go out he 'll smoke then and then he just normally stops . |
| 23 | Scott had watched him get into the rocket many times and he dreamed about going with Space Man . |
| 24 | He 's called the house a couple of times and he says he 's coming this way . |
| 25 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 26 | Brooke J. was not satisfied , however , as to the appropriateness of the relevant regulation of the Consolidated Regulations of the Inns of Court in modern times and he remitted the case to the Inn for reconsideration in the light of his judgment . |
| 27 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 28 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 29 | She can be domineering at times and she wanted her own way , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |