Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 2 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
| 3 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 8 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 16 | For the purpose of its own capital gains base cost the purchaser of assets buys those assets at the value attributed to them at the time of purchase . |
| 17 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 18 | It was the only vacancy offered to me at the time |
| 19 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 20 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |
| 21 | He had shown , or so it had seemed to her at the time , genuine concern for others . |
| 22 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
| 23 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |
| 24 | They 're using a bank pamphlet given to them at the time as their evidence . |
| 25 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 26 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 27 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 28 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 29 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've made sure that I am seen talking to you at the time of this man 's arrest in a public place . |