Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I du n no if you have n't done anything wrong I mean most of the time I mean every time Eleanor 's erm stopped talking to someone it 's always usually erm her misunderstanding something . |
| 2 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 3 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 4 | He read English at Cambridge — ‘ actually I spent most of the time reading opera ’ and went on to become one of the first crop of the Arts Council 's pioneering Arts Administration course , which was ‘ a bit Heath Robinsonish then , but still a wonderful grounding ’ . |
| 5 | For me back to basics is how I find most of the time to run my own life , which is there are two teams and on the one hand there 's compassion , integrity and courage |
| 6 | to climb the stairs , and I think then you tend to panic a bit , I and I felt most of the time I felt fine , and then you see getting up at five o'clock yesterday morning , by the time I got off , it was your father that fell asleep on that last drinking session , but I mean , as I said we ai n't used to drinking in the day like that |
| 7 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 8 | but er , I think most of the time the wedding in here is much more geared for how the bride look like and photographer , it is all the time for four hours , how you stand , it 's nothing normal , noth nothing natural , nothing |
| 9 | That bar in the illustration , had to be lifted up and over at the end of each row to deposit the stitches on to the needles — a great opportunity to drop stitches , which I did most of the time ! |
| 10 | Rapid weight loss may have made you feel good at the time , but depression and frustration soon set in as the pounds or kilos slowly creep back on again . |
| 11 | Erm d do you remember much about the time after the first world war ? |
| 12 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 13 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 14 | Well if you remember most of the time the lights are off . |
| 15 | The one she wore most of the time . ’ |
| 16 | Know we got lost with the time zone there because Portugal is an hour |
| 17 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 18 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 19 | Apart from offices , we spent most of the time outside . |
| 20 | The uniform , which we wore most of the time , was in my case obviously secondhand , being of an earlier model than the current one . |
| 21 | That 's what we do most of the time . |
| 22 | And when we come near to the time of his Occultation you must never let him out of your sight . ’ |
| 23 | I persuaded her to remain silent for the time being , I think , by promising to find out everything I could . |
| 24 | They want most of the time to feel confident about what they are tackling , even if they make a few mistakes , and basically optimistic about their own future and the future of education . |
| 25 | He spent like four hours or something with the attorney general and with these three other staff over there … and they spent most of the time talking about all aspects of the Iran initiative and so forth , and then at the very end Meese pulled out that April memo … and said , ‘ what about this ? ’ |
| 26 | At a rally addressed by Labour 's Dennis Healey , they spent most of the time trying to avoid one of their school dinner ladies , who was forever shouting to the platform : ‘ You 're just feathering the beds for the Tories . ’ |
| 27 | Whatever the weather they spent most of the time waiting for fares , either at one or other of the Railway Stations or the cab ranks in Fisherton Street or Blue Boar Row . |
| 28 | If all scientists were critical of all parts of the framework in which they worked all of the time then no detailed work would ever get done . |
| 29 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |
| 30 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |