Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left most of his meal , and seemed uninterested in any of the conversation she attempted , answering in monosyllables most of the time . |
| 2 | I expect your clothes will be dry enough to brush clean by the time you 've finished . |
| 3 | I did not know this at the time . |
| 4 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 5 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |
| 6 | This , of course , was nothing to be ashamed of , but I did not realize that at the time . |
| 7 | It is probable that the linguistic differentiation which separates the South Slavs from the Western Slavs ( Poles , Czechs , Slovaks ) and the Eastern Slavs ( Russians , Bielorussians , Ukrainians ) had not become apparent at the time of the migration . |
| 8 | A rum evolution , Alix had often thought , though it had not seemed strange at the time : what had then seemed strange , in her girlhood , had been her parents ' quaint socialist ideals , which had caused her such embarrassment , and , partly because of that embarrassment , had inspired in her such undeviating loyalty . |
| 9 | Even if the accident does not seem serious at the time , but you think it might have some ill-effect in the future you should apply to the DSS for a decision that it was an industrial accident . |
| 10 | I generally take two at a time , but then I 've had a lot of practice . |
| 11 | You will also tend not to feel tired by the time the local inhabitants are going to bed . |
| 12 | What you would do in your case with children is probably appoint them all and then they do n't all have to prove so they would hopefully discuss this at the time and say Well you know I 'm a long way away why do n't you two get on with . |
| 13 | Some of the deaths are blamed on polonium , an element whose presence during the accident was deliberately kept secret at the time because of its military sensitivity . |
| 14 | I was also becoming frustrated with the time I had to spend on commercial projects at BRM . |
| 15 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 16 | On the other side of the coin , we would expect that those features of the Creole which ( a ) are salient and ( b ) do not present the speaker with any special difficulties of the sort involved in /r/-insertion , will be successfully imitated most of the time . |
| 17 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 18 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 19 | If you require delivery of your car to the airport into which you are flying , please state this at the time of booking . |
| 20 | It did n't seem important at the time and I was busy . |
| 21 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 22 | Most of the time , I wo n't say all of the time , but most of the time . |
| 23 | I was helping Aunt Tone prepare stuff in the kitchen but had to give up when Lewis and Verity volunteered to assist as well , and then spent most of the time feeding one another little bits of food , goosing each other and going into sardinely-intimate huddles punctuated by low whispers , bursts of baboon-like giggles and convincingly porcine snorts . |
| 24 | The danger of the latter approach is that they can be shelved and then become critical at a time when resources are being deployed elsewhere . |
| 25 | And you firmly believe that at the time ! |
| 26 | From Llewellyn-Jones ' ( 1981a , b ) findings , there must be a question as to whether BSL interpreting is actually occurring most of the time . |
| 27 | You can just imagine what it would be like if a child was actually wearing this at the time of ignition . |
| 28 | As rain threatened throughout the week , but failed to actually materialise most of the time , there were fewer disruptions than usual , and another delightful aspect of Beckenham week was able to take place . |
| 29 | The minting of his own coins by Beonna could suggest that he too broke free for a time from Aethelbald 's domination . |
| 30 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |