Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] the 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oh that would have been I think it was between the wars , I think between the time of the world wars . |
| 6 | I said at the time of Robert Maxwell 's death that he 'd left a trail of wreckage across the city . |
| 7 | What sort of estimate did you make of the time of death ? " |
| 8 | You hear about the times of good King Hal , and the rather implausible suggestion that he wrote ‘ Greensleeves ’ , but I do n't see him in any romantic light at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | KPMG should not be associated with an Investment Overview which we know at the time of issue to be misleading or factually incorrect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ As we said at the time of this tour 's selection , David Gower 's Test career is not necessarily finished . |
| 17 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 18 | ‘ Whether or not they objected at the time of the planning application we ca n't say . ’ |
| 19 | Until then , its leaders continued to reflect the ascendancy they enjoyed at the time of the 1945 Potsdam conference . |
| 20 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The publishing world would be badly hit if politicians did not bring forth their diaries from time to time , showing just how they reacted at the time to particular world events . |
| 23 | As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles . |
| 24 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 25 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 26 | He toyed with the time of Munich , the decisions and failures to decide that had made the world he lived in . |
| 27 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 28 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 29 | A burning , thick discharge like cream , especially if it occurs at the time of the monthly period . |
| 30 | If it occurs after the time of supply then he will have a defence , although the retailer will be liable for breach of the implied terms under ss13-14 of SGA 1979 and analagous provisions in contracts of supply . |