Example sentences of "in the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 2 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 3 | Also to fill in the time she used Allen 's bow . |
| 4 | She therefore advertised the garage as being for rent , and at the same time got herself a job as a secretary to an insurance broker , to fill in the time until Peter should be at home permanently or a family should arrive . |
| 5 | Fill in the time and date in the spaces labelled{ Date } , { Time } respectively on the row labelled{ 1 . |
| 6 | Chesarynth almost drank the wine just to fill in the time , but the thought of poison halted the crystal-stemmed goblet half-way to her mouth . |
| 7 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 8 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 9 | All that remained now was to fill in the time until she could ring her mother . |
| 10 | fill in the time till they go |