Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 2 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 3 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 4 | it would normally , if I recall correctly at the time , there would normally been a memorandum listing new charges for each development |
| 5 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 6 | It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’ |
| 7 | If I could also ask those of you who have n't decided on a confirmation name , I think really by the time we meet again you should . |
| 8 | I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’ |
| 9 | I said so at the time , if you remember . |
| 10 | And then we added eight two , which asked the director to explore the long-term viability of the estate , now we made that , and I said so at the time , the answer to that could be either positive or negative . |
| 11 | And is it quite regular hours or do you work all over the time ? |
| 12 | Sometimes it 's free ( or , to put it another way , you pay only for the time you access the system ) , at other times you pay per ‘ page ’ of information you read . |
| 13 | ‘ Then why on earth did n't you say so at the time ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The work of the diocese will go on and we look forward to the time when he can be back with us and working amongst us again . ’ |
| 15 | But there were perfectly good ways of preserving food without refrigeration , which were followed even more diligently than we do nowadays in the time of the deep freeze . |
| 16 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 17 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 18 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 19 | There were , however , some lusty singers among his parishioners , and he looked forward to the time when it might prove possible to fill the chancel with an unsurpliced choir . |
| 20 | He spoke enthusiastically at the time of co-opting the help of government , community groups and business — a troika that would transform downtrodden parts of the city into gleaming new shopping malls and day-care centres and rebuilt factories and office space . |
| 21 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |
| 22 | He said once at the time of Suez with a charge of bitterness , " Those Egyptians are rats . " |
| 23 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |
| 24 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 25 | It comes just in the time for Christmas and fund raisers are sure it 'll be a popular stocking-filler . |