Example sentences of "time [ex0] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time there was a Land Rover and an unmarked escort [ car ] at the scene … |
| 2 | Once upon a time there was a man who thought he could be a dragon-master . |
| 3 | At the time there was a postal strike and I did n't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ About that time there was a notorious murderer at large . |
| 5 | Local magazines were started and in time there was a national monthly , The Free Church Chronicle as well as a monthly magazine for the family , The Freechurchman . |
| 6 | The last time there was a serious battle for the post was 1951 , when Mr W S Morrison , Conservative MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury , was elected , defeating Major J Milner , Labour MP for Leeds South East , who had been deputy Speaker in the previous Parliament . |
| 7 | For a long time there was a tradition that the mill took its name from a period in 1629 , when The Crown had 610 guns cast for The States General of Holland . |
| 8 | Then , with the Blitz , German bombers droned overhead on their way to London , to devastate the city Virginia loved with a passion , and the windows of Monk 's House rattled every time there was a heavy bombing raid those sixty-odd miles away . |
| 9 | It was n't a very nice day again ; this time there was a good old Scotch mist and it was damp and cold . |
| 10 | Before his time there was a flourishing inn in Sheviock ; the ‘ Carew Arms ’ . |
| 11 | In 1955 also the idea of a Children 's Church on Sunday mornings was first suggested ( thought it did not start till November 1960 ) and in December 1955 for the first time there was a Christmas tree in church . |
| 12 | Every time there was a call , although 99 times out of a 100 the call was for him , he pushed the phone in my direction . |
| 13 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 14 | K. M. One time there was a big crowd in the street and two men fighting — about six-deep , the crowd . |
| 15 | By this time there was a great interest in how he had overcome his problem when so many other treatments had failed . |
| 16 | This time there was a prolonged muttering that sounded like a complaint and the rags shook as though in anger . |
| 17 | At this time there was a kosher chip shop in the district , but being further than Mitchell 's — and it being rather late at night — Mum was loath to ask her to go too far . |
| 18 | There was an inevitable lack of interest when rabbit stocks fell after myxomatosis , and after a very short time there was a corresponding fall in the number of ferrets retained for sporting purposes . |
| 19 | This may be ; but at the time there was a case to be made for the new policy satisfying the demands both of expediency and humanity . |
| 20 | At one time there was a mill at Kexby , either a windmill or a horse mill , according to one resident . |
| 21 | At one time there was a police inspector and a police constable at the police station . |
| 22 | Once upon a time there was a film with a jolly popular song , sung as a duet . |
| 23 | Once upon a time there was a little boy called Steven Spielberg who refused to grow up . |
| 24 | For some time there was a conflict of jurisdiction between the bishop 's reeves and the interests of the Gild Merchant . |
| 25 | STAMFORD is usually referred to as having fourteen churches in the medieval period , but at one time there was a fifteenth , dedicated to St. Thomas . |
| 26 | THE last time there was a comparable announcement was on December 11 , 1936 , when Stanley Baldwin told the Commons Edward VIII was abdicating . |
| 27 | ( At the time there was a church on the corner , now there is a Bus Station . ) |
| 28 | The new trolleybus service was numbered 654 and for the first time there was a through service crossing the main road at West Croydon . |
| 29 | But this time there was a difference . |
| 30 | At that time there was a dispute between the Pharisees and Sadducees as to when the festival should begin . |