Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | The only thing I saw wrong at the time was that David and Tony began not to communicate . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 8 | ‘ We took Laura to one evening reception where she spent most of the time entertaining folk in the kitchen . |
| 9 | The one she wore most of the time . ’ |
| 10 | Know we got lost with the time zone there because Portugal is an hour |
| 11 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 12 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 13 | Apart from offices , we spent most of the time outside . |
| 14 | The uniform , which we wore most of the time , was in my case obviously secondhand , being of an earlier model than the current one . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 22 | It rained most of the time , and when we were kicked out of the youth hostel for the day we walked around and sat in bus shelters . |
| 23 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 24 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 25 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 26 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 27 | In the event , the job proved a disappointment and , in his own words , he spent most of the time ‘ stacking shelves , pushing trolleys and sweeping floors ’ . |
| 28 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 29 | Like many great villains , Daine must have no conception of how ludicrous he appeared much of the time . |
| 30 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |