Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 2 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 3 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 4 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 5 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 6 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |
| 7 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 8 | How can the poor woman explain that , probably like the majority of wives , she loved him most of the time , when he did n't snore in her ear all night or shout at the kids or keep her short of Bingo money . " |
| 9 | Never mind , we 'll have it clean by the time the pie 's ready . ’ |
| 10 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 11 | She felt comfortable in casual clothes and wore them most of the time , but she found herself wishing that , just for once , she had put on something rather more dressy . |
| 12 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 13 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 14 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 15 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 16 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 17 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 18 | Charged particles from outer space ( cosmic rays ) are bombarding us all of the time and occasionally cause the electronics in the sophisticated detector circuits to misfire . |
| 19 | After the trials of Halton , Cranwell was a haven , With my pay now being nearly 30 a week , I invested in a motorcycle — a square tank Rudge of questionable vintage — for £4 ( at a pound a week ) , but soon cured myself of the motorcycle bug that seemed to affect us all at the time . |
| 20 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 21 | Just saying br , just saying briefly er Mr I , I had something I do find it most of the time we do find it very instructive and certainly the strength of the economic development strategy is about the partnership and all those partners contributing their particular field of interest and that 's I think is . |