Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] time [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
| 2 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 3 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 4 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 5 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 6 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 7 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 8 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 9 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 10 | No cos I did n't have it at the time when I did that . |
| 11 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 12 | You were very kind to me at a time when I needed comforting and I 'm grateful to you . ’ |
| 13 | I was n't allowed to go anywhere near them at a time when I most needed reassuring . |
| 14 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 15 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 16 | The Labour Council continues to show its concern for the least fortunate among us at a time when it has to spend time , money and effort attending the demands of increasingly authoritarian central Government and collecting the Tory Poll Tax . |