Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 2 | The Quarto version assigns the play 's final lines — ‘ The weight of this sad time we must obey ; /Speak what we feel , not what we ought to say . |
| 3 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 4 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 5 | Well at that particular time I could n't tell him . |
| 6 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 7 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 8 | Mr. Sturge in his argument has maintained that such a lease would be valid , and that , even if the term is uncertain at its beginning when the lease takes effect , the fact that at some future time it will be rendered certain is sufficient to make it a good lease . |
| 9 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 10 | At any other time she might have appreciated the beauty of the morning , a perfect , brilliant , cloudless day , golden and enticing after a refreshing overnight rain . |
| 11 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |
| 12 | ‘ At any other time it would be a pleasure . ’ |
| 13 | At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him . |
| 14 | At any other time I 'd have laughed at this innocent self-betrayal ; just now it did n't seem funny , only irritating . |
| 15 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 16 | A person may be resident in more than one country but at any given time he/she can only be domiciled in one . |