Example sentences of "the time [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you feel worthless , useless — and do things often without knowing at the time why you have . |
| 2 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 3 | I was particularly impressed by the way you managed to organise all the available services so efficiently — just at the time when we were beginning to wonder how we 'd manage . ’ |
| 4 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 5 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
| 6 | It was still only a quarter to eight — exactly the time when , last Friday , Alan turned up . |
| 7 | Each reflects something of the period and quality of the music , the period being of the time when written by the composer or when presented as a ballet and the quality being that inspired in the choreographer by the composer . |
| 8 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 9 | I was practising this the other day , in preparation for the time when my climbing standard drops slightly , and was surprised to read some interesting facts about myself . |
| 10 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |
| 11 | At the time when Poland has its first Solidarity prime minister , Hungary is to have free elections , and Britain is fed up with Mrs Thatcher 's authoritarian style , Labour should be seen to take democratic issues seriously . |
| 12 | At the time when there were doubts about whether or not the tour would go ahead , after the first invitations were largely turned down , numerous stories started to circulate that there would be money available and that sponsors were in the country looking for players . |
| 13 | ‘ They are the ones who invited Mr Adams to address them just 500 yards from the Grand Hotel which some of us have cause to remember ; to address them less than two weeks after the time when , along the coast at Deal , 10 young musicians in the Royal Marines were foully murdered . |
| 14 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |
| 15 | After Fisher died Ramsey said that the time in their lives when they were closest in friendship was the time when he was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Chester . |
| 16 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 17 | Ideas of the juxtaposition of the arid and the flowering desert were familiar to Eliot from the time when he had read Mayne Reid . |
| 18 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 19 | She could remember though the time when she realised that she must , for love of them both , never let them know that she was aware of it . |
| 20 | Conran cites the time when Habitat and other leading British-Based retail groups were first entering overseas markets and had a struggle to make profits as another example of the fickle behaviour of City investors . |
| 21 | You try to defy death all the time when you 've had a Catholic upbringing , because it 's just so awful . |
| 22 | Naturally Marx started by explaining the historical mechanism and inner working of the social system which dominated the condition of the working class at the time when he wrote on capitalism . |
| 23 | Capital is thus not only a political critique of society but it is also a criticism of the terms in which the economy was discussed at the time when he wrote , and a demonstration that these terms are moulded to the purposes of the system they pretend to analyse . |
| 24 | Their society may have , and most probably has , changed radically and often since the time when hunters and gatherers roamed Europe . |
| 25 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 26 | It was at exactly the time when Odd-Knut feared Brusie was dying , as she became unconscious . |
| 27 | The ‘ catch ’ is that , even though the time when something is done is decided by the volunteer , he has no cues from clocks , television , or other humans as to what the time really is . |
| 28 | It can be seen that the physician or doctor will have to bear both factors in mind when deciding if the time when a drug is to be taken is important ( see also Chapter 14 ) . |
| 29 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | That 's the time when you can work out how people deal with their roses and the pruning and there are lots of other things flowering then , too . ’ |