Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 3 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 4 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 5 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 6 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 7 | I do n't think he meant it , looking back , but I believed him at the time . |
| 8 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 9 | I insulted him at the time . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 11 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
| 12 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 13 | I understood it at the time . |
| 14 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 15 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 16 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 17 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 18 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
| 19 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 20 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 21 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 22 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 23 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 24 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 25 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 26 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 27 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 28 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 29 | But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge . |
| 30 | I have never quite understood why " Chesh " as we called him at the time , was the only person I selected for training with the Force that my Master vetoed ; my Master also vetoed the selection of Leonard to command No 35 Squadron in the early days of the Pathfinder Force and I was never able to establish why . |