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Example sentences for "time went"

  • It was remarkable, too, that as time went on what at first had seemed the result of chance, recurred with such invariable regularity as to betray the existence of a fixed rule.

  • Besides, as time went on and he found his own interest in her increasing, he began to nourish the hope that he might one day hear her story from her own lips.

  • However as time went on, this became known in the following manner:—Amestris the wife of Xerxes had woven a mantle, large and of various work and a sight worthy to be seen, and this she gave to Xerxes.

  • And thus as time went on Grisell led no unhappy life.

  • So time went on, and the rule of the House of York in England seemed established, while the exiles had settled down in Burgundy, Grisell to her lace pillow, Leonard to the suite of the Count de Charolais.

  • However, in spite of murmurs, the xvj crowns were raised and sent away with Black Lightning; and as time went on Grisell became more and more a needful person.

  • But as time went on, as life became more easy, in one way or another the savage learned to become less savage.

  • But as time went on these pilgrimages lost their old meaning.

  • As on and on time went, every year more stories were told and sung and written down.

  • But as time went on and English became once more the language of the educated as well as of the uneducated, there arose a cultured English, which became the language which we speak to-day.

  • So as time went on these well-known tales came to be told in many different ways, changing as the times changed.

  • At first his attitude was one of apparent humility, but as time went on he regained his arrogant attitude and from his cell issued defiances to his captors.

  • As time went on, however, they gradually became more wealthy and powerful, until they had established a sort of caste.

  • The physical life was very hard, and it is no wonder that the stragglers back from the mines increased in numbers as time went on.

  • As time went on he became, he declared, 'increasingly convinced that it is not knowledge, but the means of gaining knowledge which I have to teach'.

  • But, as time went on, the situation became more complicated.

  • As time went on, her 'Cabinet', as she called it, grew larger.

  • Unfortunately, however, as time went on, the public seemed to realise it less and less.

  • His verse, less practised as time went on, was well wrought and often distinguished by flashes of spirited song and balladry.

  • As time went on the travellers (with whatever object) who used the great alpine passes could not put up any longer with the bad old mule paths.

  • As time went on, this became more and more evident.

  • As time went on, great difficulties showed themselves in the way of this compromise--difficulties theological not less than difficulties scientific.

  • The story, like the saints' legends, evidently grew as time went on, but is none the less interesting as showing the general credulity.

  • There were many callers--increasing in number and eminence as time went on--at Cheyne Row; but naturally few guests.

  • But McCrae had a peculiar effect on him, and as time went on, his conviction deepened that his assistant was watching him.

  • But as time went on, he recognized more and more that she had come into his life at a moment when he was peculiarly vulnerable.

  • And as time went on his magnificent coat began to come off in great, unsightly patches, his eyes and mouth got sore and red, and his limbs grew weak and rickety.

  • She began to realize, too, as time went on, that there was something in what the mother monkey had said: Mona was decidedly delicate and undoubtedly unlucky.

  • But as time went on Keesa began to realize that although.

  • As time went on, he found himself pushed more and more into a single branch of medicine--one, too, he had never meant to let grow over his head in this fashion.

  • But as time went on Mahony noticed that his wife grew decidedly thoughtful; and if John continued to sing Jinny's praises, he heard nothing more of it.

  • As time went on, she suffered strange uncertainties where some of Richard's decisions were concerned.

  • As time went on, Lisbeth had contracted some rather strange old-maidish habits.

  • Time went by, and Schmucke became an institution in the orchestra; the Illustrious Gaudissart said nothing, but he was well aware of the value of Pons' collaborator.

  • But all the time, when his breath would let him, he would pray for courage--as time went on he prayed more for courage to bear his burden than for alleviation of it, though sometimes a Gethsemane prayer would be wrung from him.

  • She had not the faintest idea what the cousin meant, but she was to know it as time went by.

  • She could do nothing to help him: he resented her anxiety more and more as time went on.

  • But as time went on he came to imitate and contend in many events, driving chariots, fighting duels, giving exhibitions of dancing, and acting in tragedy.

  • As time went on, however, he put a very great number to death.

  • As time went on and men's possessions became larger, it was advanced to twenty-five myriads, and no one was any longer found who wanted to be senator.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another called; each stroke; first gentleman; malignant disease; marriage custom; national feeling; remember rightly; sent down; several works; small farm; thousand horse; time after; time and; time been; time before; time came; time coming; time enough; time like; time past; time presses; time should; time went; time will come when; time wore; times gone