Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [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 | 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 | Paul , you looked up at the times . |
| 15 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 16 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | We did not at the time think that we were sacrificing sovereignty to join that system . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 24 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |
| 29 | It would be a long time before all of this changed very much — and certainly it had not by the time of the Crowther Report in 1959 ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 30 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |