Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 2 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 3 | When you when you come up here and do the driving you find that erm because people are are just not available at the time and erm y I 'm here just for a and Stan only here for a a limited period , and er you 're sort of trying they 're downstairs they 're trying to get people off the trucks when they come in or whatever the case may be to go out and do an assessment run , and it 's not always possible . |
| 4 | I was painfully thin at the time and he commented , ‘ We could almost touch your shoulder-blades as you dashed past with plates of chips . ’ |
| 5 | Only I was really upset at the time and when I think of them drilling into my head and peeling back my skull and — ’ |
| 6 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
| 7 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 8 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 9 | This is equally destructive of the time and creative opportunity of each new day . |
| 10 | Although each component is necessary to the final taste of the cake , to ask how much of the taste is contributed by the flour , how much by the eggs , how much by the time and temperature of baking makes no sense ; the mixing and baking have qualitatively transformed the components . |
| 11 | ‘ The trains between Montreal and Toronto are late three-quarters of the time and the new engines break down regularly . |
| 12 | It happened because I was pretty vulnerable at the time and when I came across this lady who I felt sorry for I imagined that I would be able to support her and make her happy . |
| 13 | Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously . |
| 14 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 15 | His hopes are set , as ever in the context of the whole — his seas , hill and woods , and mossy apple trees — but his emotions are very specific to the time and place , and environment in which he writes . |
| 16 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 17 | War , whether against domestic rebels or external threats , meant armed forces and armaments , and the financing of these prodigious costs meant that much of the time and energy of the Monarch 's developing bureaucracies were devoted to raising funds for this purpose , securing access to the surplus generated within society . |
| 18 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 19 | We 'll have to wait before we can be absolutely certain of the time and manner of death , but from what we know already , it looks , yet again , as if any of those old buggers could have done it . ’ |