Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | You took a good deal with you at that time I presume |
2 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
3 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
4 | I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother ! |
5 | Perhaps it was a great help to me at this time that the RAF introduced a new trade into the Service — Metal Rigger — and to the horror of the old " Chippie Rigger " who fashioned the ancient wooden aircraft , and claimed " we used to have men of steel and kites of wood … sadly now the process has been reversed " . |
6 | I could have made contact with it at any time . |
7 | Thank the Lord for his faithfulness to them at this time . |
8 | And then after when there was practically no erm commercial trade with them at that time . |
9 | However , we reserve the right for repayment to be made on demand by us at any time . |
10 | ‘ And no address for her at that time ? |
11 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
12 | In the present case , the defendant was well aware that the council had acquired the plot in order to construct a road on it at some time in the future and meantime had no present use for the land . |
13 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
14 | A young Cornish shoemaker married at the time he was setting up on his own : " his wife 's immediate fortune was ten pounds — a sum to him at that time , of great importance " . |
15 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
16 | Would you have shared that view with them at that time ? |