Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the hearing , Miss Lamplugh said : ‘ I did not actually think about my sister at the time . |
| 2 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 3 | There have been several times when I was tempted to try and get in touch and apologise for my attack at the time of Simon 's death . ’ |
| 4 | I can assure you that did less than nothing for my morale at the time . |
| 5 | I never did discover who he was , the son of the house or just another guest , and my own obtuseness and incuriosity now appear to me more revealing than anything else of my state at the time . |
| 6 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 7 | But the reason I started performing was because of my boyfriend at the time — he writes Coronation Street now so he 's doing all right , no sympathy . |
| 8 | So this forced me ( slightly against my will at the time ) to organise some special courses for them , and they turned out reasonably well after that . |
| 9 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 10 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're flesh and blood , warm and yielding , bursting into my life at a time when I 'd sworn to give women a wide berth , enticing me with your large eyes and your candour , your raven hair and your loyalty … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As the queen-dowager , my cousin and dear friend , gave you into my keeping for the time of your sojourn here — then , dear child , if you promise to have a care for your own safety , to give no offence and behave discreetly , you shall have my permission . ’ |
| 13 | At times he is wise beyond his age , but I just wanted to write whatever popped into my mind at the time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god . |
| 15 | There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time . |
| 16 | When I looked back I realized it was because of a hurt from when I was younger-I had protruding teeth and was the only child in my school at the time to wear braces . |
| 17 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 18 | There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money . |
| 19 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 20 | The fastenings flew off my jodhpurs and there had wriggled their way round my knees by the time the pony pulled up . |
| 21 | Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach . |
| 22 | I did n't say anything about this to my parents at the time , but the sight haunted me for years . |
| 23 | Robert then spoke to my mother about the time when they were young . |
| 24 | I want a list on my desk by the time I get back . ’ |
| 25 | The police had found somebody who had seen me on my island at the time of the murder , and so the judge let me go free . |
| 26 | I was on my knees by the time we unpacked the sandwiches and tried to find the energy to chew , and I recall making small high-pitched squeaking noises in reply to any attempt at a chat . |
| 27 | If Clive caught me entertaining a lady friend in the classroom , I would be out on my ear in no time at all . |