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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them .
5	It was pure good luck that someone dropped out so I could come this weekend — at least , I thought so at the time . ’
6	I thought back over the times I had watched the ploughing ; in late autumn at the potato harvest , and in the summer , slopping through the flooded paddy fields .
7	I did not at the time understand how to tie the tension to the size of pattern .
8	I did n't at the time know where to , but when I had only about two months to go I too was posted , to Scampton near Lincoln , and who was the first person I saw when I booked into the Waaf Guard Room ?
9	At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage .
10	I said so at the time , did n't I , Kathleen ? ’
11	I said so at the time , if you remember .
12	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 .
13	A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’
14	Yes , she worked here for a time . ’
15	Paul , you looked up at the times .
16	She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again .
17	Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time .
18	We knew for definite that it was only a two bedroomed flat and that is one of the reasons we went in at the time we did , hoping that everyb e every person in that flat would be asleep .
19	You just ca n't trust these thespians — any residual loyalty vanishes once the last cheque has been banked : according to the Evening Standard , Maureen Lippmann , who played the ‘ typical Jewish mother ’ Beattie ( BT , geddit ? — we did n't at the time , but then we detest brutal acronyms in place of meaningful names ) to the mutual benefit of British Telecommunications Plc and her bank balance , when asked to reveal her favourite word , replied , without hesitation , ‘ Mercurial ’ .
20	We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system .
21	And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon .
22	He struck out at them and soared upwards and they fell away for a time .
23	probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being
24	Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
25	Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant !
26	‘ 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 .
27	‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully .
28	It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories .
29	None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed .
30	He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble .