Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
2 | I studied for a time in Paris , Padua and Salerno . ’ |
3 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
4 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
5 | While I was there , I went for a time to a sangha , a Buddhist religious community . |
6 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
7 | Oh that would have been I think it was between the wars , I think between the time of the world wars . |
8 | I said at the time of Robert Maxwell 's death that he 'd left a trail of wreckage across the city . |
9 | erm to go to another famous bio-plan , I pondered for a time about why does the bio-plan of insects insist on having six legs , after all we do n't have six legs , why do insects have six legs ? |
10 | What sort of estimate did you make of the time of death ? " |
11 | She danced for a time in Pavlova 's company , and returned home in 1928 with the ambition of developing ballet in her native land . |
12 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
13 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
14 | Once we have worked out with you how much you will pay towards your care , the Department has the right to continue to base this on the amount of money you had at the time of your assessment . |
15 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
16 | Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time . |
17 | Many external influences can affect our state of mind , from the food we eat to the time of year , from programming in our past to stress in our current situation . |
18 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
19 | But what we could do of course , is is we put in a time between containers , we could always use them to re-palletize it . |
20 | KPMG should not be associated with an Investment Overview which we know at the time of issue to be misleading or factually incorrect . |
21 | It 's usually er er males that go to wars rather than females , and you can waste them on a vast scale like we did at the time of the first world war and , and find virtually no effect on your population . |
22 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
23 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
24 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
25 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
26 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
27 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
28 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
29 | Here , following the banner of reform , led by the gentlemen of that most aristocratic Whig Government , led by Lord Grey , Lord Melbourne , Lord John Russell , they saw for a time before them the high road to a better and fairer ordering of society . |
30 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |