Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that small band of men who sat round smoking and drinking their beer or whisky could have had any idea , as they heard Jack vigorously defending the doctrine of hell in nine pages , that the publication of these religious speculations , pieced together at a busy time between giving lectures and examining , was to change his destiny forever . |
| 2 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |
| 3 | He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do . |
| 4 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 5 | It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken . |
| 6 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 7 | We were told that there would be a General 's inspection and the searchlight had to be turned on at a specified time , but when the great moment came we could not start the engine that drove the dynamo and darkness still prevailed . |
| 8 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 10 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 11 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 12 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |
| 14 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 15 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 16 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 17 | Hill was annoyed at not grabbing pole in the final qualifying session but said : ‘ I lost out in the traffic by going out at the wrong time . |
| 18 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 19 | And Gordon 's use of the melodramatic ( a vital dose of vanishingly scarce penicillin to treat a key character turns up at a crucial time ) is disappointing alongside the excellence of his writing elsewhere . |
| 20 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 21 | You can not tell if a youngster really has , for instance , stopped smoking , but you will know if your teenager gets in at the negotiated time . |
| 22 | ‘ The letters are the firms , the numbers are the prices in pence of a typical Alpha stock and the volumes they are prepared to deal in at a particular time . |
| 23 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 24 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 25 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 26 | We knew we were moving abroad at an interesting time in world history , but we did n't realize we 'd get to watch the apocalypse from here . |
| 27 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 28 | If you want information to go out at a specific time , time it very carefully , and just bung it out , as it were , and , and reckon it 's there at that stage . |
| 29 | You might arrange for pay to be given out at a different time and check whether the trains are less crowded somewhat earlier in the afternoon . |
| 30 | I called in at the wrong time . |