Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘
2 At first the books came one at a time .
3 Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time .
4 conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry .
5 It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim .
6 Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ?
7 As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ .
8 Eusebius traces them to the time of the Emperor Trajan , A.D. 98–117 .
9 ( c ) the willingness of the offeror to commit itself to the time and expense involved in a contested bid ;
10 She rang erm a le , did she tell so , did , mum tell you about the time she had erm some calls about two in the morning ?
11 And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ?
12 Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something !
13 Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required .
14 From the point of view of an application system carrying out final plausibility checks , CLE- I logical forms emerge one at a time , with no scoring information attached , and the application must decide which one to accept using an essentially binary , absolute plausibility test .
15 The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being .
16 It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it .
17 Inspector did you at the time , know of Lawrence ?
18 You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling .
19 I thought he and you , both of you , had deceived me about your relationship — the way Suzanna and Raich deceived me for a time .
20 Norma remembers it as a time of great happiness tinged with much sadness , for the pub was adopted by the Canadians and Americans stationed at Middleton St George .
21 So we 'll just use the line feed one at a time .
22 Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO .
23 The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up .
24 I construe this agreement as a promise by the husband to pay his wife 30s. a week in consideration of her promise to maintain herself during the time she is living separate from him , whether due to her own fault or not .
25 At most colleges GCSE candidates pack two subjects into a week ; A level students take one at a time .
26 Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy .
27 Leeds Corporation having agreed to purchase 92 Feltham type cars , they were taken out of service and moved to Charlton Works one at a time , so that conduit equipment could be removed and an articulated aircraft carrier lorry was specially adapted to carry each of them to Leeds .
28 The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago .
29 ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’
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