Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was at eight months pregnant at the time . |
| 2 | There was one child amongst the others called who was eight months old at the time . |
| 3 | Earlier studies of such palaeomagnetism in France and Japan had shown that iron-rich volcanic rocks , such as basalt , record the magnetic field prevailing at the time they are formed . |
| 4 | Ian remembered it , but I did n't , being only a few months old at the time . |
| 5 | It is surely reasonable to maintain that the parties assumed to contract in the light of the scientific knowledge prevailing at the time of delivery . |
| 6 | But I hope the articles in this issue of the magazine will say to you , as they do to me : you can fool some people some of the time , but you ca n't fool most people for ever . |
| 7 | Then he put his head down , growled and took the last few stairs three at a time . |
| 8 | Or perhaps some architects some of the time . |
| 9 | So should we be surprised that the architect has to content himself with high fees most of the time as his reward when an ungrateful society refuses to thank him ? |
| 10 | And I seem to be a social worker most of the time . |
| 11 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 12 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 13 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 14 | One of the children taken from this family was only six months old at the time of removal . |
| 15 | My daughter , who was six years old at the time , was delighted to be sleeping in Mummy 's bed and I was delighted to have her with me . |
| 16 | She was about nineteen years old at the time , as I was . |
| 17 | Her head pounding , she took the stairs to the second floor two at a time . |
| 18 | His round face , blue eyes and fair hair , plus a serious mien most of the time , gave one the impression of a junior Cambridge don , and he used his long facile fingers like a Frenchman , when explaining a point . |
| 19 | I have no doubt that we could around that figure but the Chief Officer rightly believes and indeed Her Majesty 's Inspector rightly believes that we are operating too much technology most of the time . |
| 20 | I was eight years old at the time and completely confused by their attitude . |
| 21 | I was eight years old at the time . ’ |
| 22 | From living near the edge of a hot , steamy jungle in Army married quarters and coming back to England to live in a little house in Catterick Camp with snow everywhere , myself and my son , who was eight years old at the time , were sitting eating porridge feeling miserable and cold waiting for a plumber to come and mend a burst pipe . |
| 23 | The base which observes a low profile most of the time , was in the news when the Queen visited in 1978 , it also was central to the Gulf War effort with the stores working overtime to meet demand . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Jim Smith , ex-manager of Birmingham City Football Club , believes that black players make only limited use of intellectual abilities when playing soccer : ‘ They seem to use very little intelligence ; they get by on sheer natural talent most of the time . ’ |
| 25 | She was exactly three months pregnant at the time and the shock caused her to miscarry . |
| 26 | ‘ Apart from the fact that you were three months pregnant at the time of Simon 's death , ’ Vitor completed . |
| 27 | Few of us are paragons of virtue in all these matters all of the time , but we should all be committed to them . |
| 28 | The ‘ one-last-pushers ’ of the Labour movement need to be reminded of the electoral mountain that remains to be climbed ( a mountain which , thanks to the Boundary Commission , will be some 20 or so Tory seats higher by the time of the next election ) . |
| 29 | Playfair married Jessie Graham , and their children included the well-known Scottish architect William Henry Playfair [ q.v. ] , who was only three years old at the time of his father 's death . |
| 30 | Isaac would have been two or three years old by the time he was weaned . |