Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 2 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 3 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a very important game , because one of the top assessors was there , but if I continued after half time , I could have done myself harm physically . |
| 7 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |