Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 2 | Cud were my favourite band at the time , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 4 | It is my personal feeling at the time of writing that there is no more danger in wintering or cruising in Tunisia than before , but war with Iraq might change the situation . |
| 5 | And that 's my Italian name for the time being , let's now hear let's now see how Colin will do with er the Pisa players down at Lane , Colin it 's all yours . |
| 6 | My only thought at the time was to wipe out the memory of the ordeal you 'd been made to suffer by the man you thought you loved ! ’ |
| 7 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 8 | Everybody had their own problems and I had mine with losing two the two babies , I had mine wondering if I 'd lose another you see and that that was my particular worry at the time . |
| 9 | ’ On reading these lines I realised that , if the word ‘ starving ’ were to be substituted for the word ‘ dying ’ , they could be read as a description of my own attitude at the time I was anorexic . |
| 10 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 11 | My own reaction at the time — a guilty feeling of my own inadequacy as both feeder and fed , mingled with a wish that she had not told me — indicates that this is an important piece of information . |
| 12 | She bought her first antique when she was just a teenager — an Edwardian bed for £8 , slightly less than her weekly wage at the time . |
| 13 | such person has not reached his or her seventy-first birthday at the time of injury |
| 14 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
| 15 | So far as the acquiring company is concerned , the shares transferred to it are acquired at their actual value at the time of transfer , so that that forms the base value if and when they come to be disposed of . |
| 16 | His link with the redoubtable Mrs Curdle is a long one , and strengthened by her annual visit at the time of the fair . |
| 17 | Seb and Christian had not found an opportunity to have their promised talk by the time the first of the local fairs came around . |
| 18 | In such circumstances , the counsellor will often find that invaluable help and information can be obtained from relatives and friends , who may have been aware of the personal circumstances , but perhaps unaware of their full significance at the time . |
| 19 | Their only son at the time , a cousin of my father 's called William Bayles Brown , went out on Cotherstone Moor in a snow storm to gather up some sheep , and never came back . |
| 20 | Their mean age at the time of evaluation was 2.2 ( 1.3 ) years with an age range of one month to four years . |
| 21 | This year he has a perfect excuse — his wife is expecting their first baby during the time the Three Wise Ladies are picking up from police , local authorities , and others information about weather , congestion , and danger points , and relaying it to the media . |
| 22 | The Temple compound , in its fullest development in the time of Herod , became a series of concentric circles of gradated purity . |
| 23 | ( She even sent away her young man of the time who was staying at another hotel . ) |
| 24 | A significant proportion of the population seems to eat less on Mondays ; not so many are on their new diet by the time Sunday comes around . |
| 25 | New Life Designs organises festivals of mind , body and spirit , and is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the time of writing . |
| 26 | Implicit in this emotional narrative is the assumption that their academic success of the time would serve as the platform for future literary achievements , and would lead inevitably to public recognition of their undoubted talents . |
| 27 | When people say , ‘ What 's the big idea ? ’ or ‘ Have you any idea of the time ? ’ or ‘ I 've no idea what she sees in him ’ , they are not exhibiting their acceptance of a theory of language , the theory that words work by conveying ideas . |
| 28 | ‘ Have you any idea of the time you left the carpark ? ’ |
| 29 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 30 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |