Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
2 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
3 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
4 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
5 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
6 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
7 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
8 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
9 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
10 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
11 | Failure to do so may result in decree being granted against you without a time to pay direction . |
12 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
13 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
14 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
15 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
16 | We must confirm to you at the time of booking that there is a free or reduced price holiday still available on the departure date you require . |
17 | If , for example , the reasons described seem unfair or conflict with what was said to you at the time of your dismissal , and you are eligible for unfair dismissal rights , the next step might be for you to make a complaint to the industrial tribunal . |
18 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
19 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
20 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
21 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
22 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
23 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
24 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
25 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
26 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
27 | This was not fully comprehended by everyone at the time , although Macmillan and the Treasury recognized it . |
28 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
29 | I had n't thought about it at the time |
30 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |