Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 2 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 3 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 4 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 5 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 6 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 7 | ‘ I resigned at the same time as they asked for my resignation . |
| 8 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 9 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 10 | I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics . |
| 11 | If you 're in any doubt about it , do n't — you 'll do less harm if you leave it than if you prune at the wrong time . |
| 12 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 13 | She came at the same time ; then , as he lay there , quivering in his spent heat , she rolled off him and on to her knees . |
| 14 | So if you look at the next time you 're in the loo |
| 15 | She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc . |
| 16 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 17 | If you tack at the right time , when the wind slightly changes in direction , large amounts of ground can be made over those who are oblivious to the shift . |
| 18 | Tom Russell , she learned at the same time , drank his black as well . |
| 19 | I enclose herewith a photocopy of my suggested replies to the various categories , with the exception of ‘ What is your planned use of reserves ? ’ and ‘ What is your Regional charge on band D of the Council Tax ? ’ , both of which I will leave for you to insert at the appropriate time . |
| 20 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 21 | We are nibbling , we 're constantly nibbling , we nibbled at the last time , and Councillor on our behalf has nibbled at it as well , erm , a report , erm |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Then we move at the same time . |
| 24 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 25 | Erm power stations source of energy you see , one of the biggest sources of energy that we have at the present time next twenty years |
| 26 | Of course at the moment environmental health is very much an in subject , especially with the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 , and your profession has the marvellous opportunity of seeking to safeguard the environment and also the threats that we have at the present time which are upon the environment , from so many sources but , most of all particularly in the eastern counties , from the population explosion , which we here in South Cambridgeshire know quite a bit about . |
| 27 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 28 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
| 29 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |