Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he just figured he would n't do it — he 's in this big rock band and would n't think of doing it , although I think at the time Phil would have ! |
| 2 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 3 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 4 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 5 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 6 | and I thought at the time it 's , it 's quite good enough just to have the idea and talk about the idea , make some drawings and |
| 7 | And I thought at the time , oh I 'd not done anything about it , |
| 8 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 9 | And I think by the time we get |
| 10 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 11 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 12 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 13 | The thing has little music & little choiceness of words , but I fancied at the time it was genuine enough . |
| 14 | I have heard her called a professional invalid , but I think by the time she retired to bed she must have been genuinely worn out , and duty done , how seductive must have been the temptation to escape into that room at the end of the house , with its garden door , and warm fire ; to write poetry , like Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and to be waited on by her daughter ( ‘ Coming , Mother ! ’ ) who would , and did , cope with the house and the shop and even my grandfather . |
| 15 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 16 | As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars . |
| 17 | Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ . |
| 18 | As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised . |
| 19 | And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly . |
| 20 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 21 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 22 | I write now as I found at the time . |