Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 2 | There is some comment has been made that a new settlement to the South or the South West of York would in some way undermine the urban regeneration erm of Leeds City Council , now I find this a surprising comment given that though people who are making that comment are also at the same time advocating much increased development allocations to , for example , Harrogate district , the main centre for which is erm , nearer than most conceivable new settlement locations to the South and South West of York . |
| 3 | Local experience suggests that can not be both at the same time |
| 4 | Local experience suggests that they can not be both at the same time . |
| 5 | ‘ You knew we were going to be here at the same time ? ’ |
| 6 | But on such a large complex like this , we ca n't be everywhere at the same time . |
| 7 | So the men had to be there at the right time you had t ? |
| 8 | He seemed to be there at the right time . ’ |
| 9 | Erm so witnesses er ca n't be beneficiaries and they must be there at the same time . |
| 10 | But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time . |
| 11 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 12 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 13 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 14 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 15 | I am not saying anything about the short or long-ball game , only what is right at the proper time . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’ |
| 17 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 18 | Blur provide the music on MARK GOODIER , and there 's more at the same time tomorrow . |
| 19 | While Rosa Guy makes some parts of her book easy to understand , it was only after the second time I read the book that I was able to give unanswerable questions an answer . |
| 20 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 21 | It was exactly like the first time . |
| 22 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
| 23 | According to the US consul in Saigon , three and a half of these four statements were completely false but , in fact , not only may Under-Secretary of State Dean Acheson have offered the ‘ good offices ’ of the US ( as they were to be offered in Indonesia ) but there was also at the same time in effect a plea from Moffat , then in Singapore , that for various reasons the US should intervene . |
| 24 | He was also for the first time vaguely troubled about the DIA 's priorities in the Middle East , particularly with respect to the Western hostages in Beirut . |
| 25 | It was precisely at the same time as these processes , policies and institutions were being consolidated that the embryonic imperial regime found territorial expression for its increasing power in the colonial administration and economic exploitation of Siberia . |
| 26 | Linford was there for the first time . |
| 27 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 28 | This year , FOX F M was there for the first time and Phil Angel managed to catch Dr John Howard to explain what it all meant . |
| 29 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 30 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |