Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 3 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
| 4 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 5 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 7 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 8 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 9 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 10 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
| 11 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 12 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 13 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 14 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 15 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 16 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 17 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 18 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 19 | the communism , the Kuomintang which are united at the time , and obviously the , the Kuomintang putting forward the idea of a restoration |
| 20 | Supporting evidence is also taken from data collected by a survey of libraries in the UK carried out by CRUS ( The Centre for Research on User Studies ) , during the early part of 1984 , which included a series of questions concerning training , not all of which were analysed at the time ( see Appendix 1 ) . |
| 21 | Usually it 's D W Griffith of America who 's given credit for the intelligent use of the close-up erm but Smith was immensely interested in the portraiture area of photography , and made a series of films which were called at the time ‘ facials ’ . |
| 22 | All the intriguing questions which were asked at the time , not least as to why she contributed , either deliberately or through naivety , to it becoming one of the sporting mysteries of the year in the first place , will have to remain unanswered . |
| 23 | In the accounts of British politics which were published at the time , ministerial responsibility was seen as the key and essential principle of the whole system . |
| 24 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 25 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
| 26 | But nevertheless it 's im important to remember that this is a survey erm which is conducted at the time of year when most compan or many companies raise their list prices and if one looks at the past sort of record of this survey both at the regional level and the national level , one generally does see a bit of an upturn in the pr in the prices numbers at this time of year because people are raising their list prices erm and once you allow for that erm I think these numbers are er very good in terms of prices trends , very low for the time of year . |
| 27 | That is a duty which he owes to all those who may have occasion to use the article : and it is a duty which is broken at the time when he is negligent in making the article . |
| 28 | The only aspect of the contract that can vary is the price at which the exchange is made , which is determined at the time of the transaction . |
| 29 | In addition a bonus , which is guaranteed at the time the account is opened , will be paid on maturity . |
| 30 | This cycle of events continually repeats to create an essentially rectangular or square-wave output signal , the frequency of which is controlled by the time constant RC . |