Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 2 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 3 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 4 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
| 5 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 6 | Eight miles away you can visit the magnificent Arundel Castle , which originated in Norman times and was rebuilt by the Duke of Norfolk in the 1870s . |
| 7 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 8 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 9 | However , you would not get £149.95p each if you fell on hard times and wanted to sell your sovereigns . |
| 10 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 11 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 12 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 13 | When you had the blues erm near by you said at one time that it was just away from here , was there , was there any , was it , was there any bother after that after the blues then or was it okay ? |
| 14 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 15 | We talked of old times and what might happen in the future . ’ |
| 16 | We warned at that time that the underlying quality of these products was questionable but that they might nonetheless enjoy success because quality or lack of it is not apparent in the external appearance of the products . |
| 17 | I expect that not only can the hon. Gentleman remember that , but that he will recall that we warned at that time that the reforms were illusory and would not work . |
| 18 | The only other thing to do is , is do what er er , we did at one time and just get a bright beer and open it up and er , and then pull it . |
| 19 | Did I , but you you you brought it up last meeting , that that that erm people were going as supposed to be coming back with good ideas as to how to cope with interviews in other rooms , but we said in last time that we were going to have a personal round bill . |
| 20 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 21 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 22 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 23 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 24 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 25 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 26 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 27 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 28 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 29 | The ladies murmured reluctant agreement , since most of them had at one time or another tried to oust her from at least one of the appointments which they themselves coveted . |
| 30 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |