Example sentences of "[adj] thing at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation . |
2 | I felt two different things at the same time . |
3 | You will otherwise feel frustrated if you try to tackle different things at the same time . |
4 | If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley . |
5 | Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time , according to the papers . |
6 | There was a slight air of confusion as people rushed around trying to do three things at the same time . |
7 | There is however a problem , if one is trying to do both these things at the same time . |
8 | Is it a pure contradiction to affirm both these things at the same time ? |
9 | Although he lacked any deep personal convictions , Vologsky had always trod the path of least resistance , done the right things at the right times . |
10 | ‘ It was the right thing at the right time . |
11 | ‘ Having the bump out the front was so obviously the right thing at the right time . |
12 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
13 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
14 | She never ceased to amaze Dexter with her ability to do several things at the same time — perhaps too many things , he thought , regarding her dishevelled hair and the flush of stress in her cheeks . |
15 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
16 | They smiled into each other 's faces , pointing to the same things at the same time , sharing . |
17 | Thus the more nearly perfect a market is , the stronger is the tendency for the same price to be paid for the same thing at the same time in all parts of the market : but of course if the market is large , allowance must be made for the expense of delivering the goods to different purchasers ; each of whom must be supposed to pay in addition to the market price a special charge on account of delivery . |
18 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
19 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
20 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
21 | It 's very difficult to do er two things at the same time . |
22 | When I 'm drinking a glass of water , I 'm drinking a glass of water and not thinking about five other things at the same time . |
23 | Perhaps he was thinking of other things at the same time . |