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 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 8 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 9 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | we 're getting there at the right time |
| 12 | However , it may be that the norm here is ‘ horse ’ not ‘ filly ’ so that the frolicsomeness would be a characteristic found only at a particular time , viz . |
| 13 | I mean it 's crazy , why do n't they have the conference time at ten o'clock in the morning , and have the conference and everybody go home at a decent time , it 's silly . |
| 14 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 15 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 17 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 18 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |