Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | She 'll understand your anger and stop what she 's doing for the time being , but that wo n't stop her doing it again when you ca n't see . |
| 32 | The details of Julian 's life are not known , but it is highly unlikely that she was professed at the time of her visionary experience — if at all . |
| 33 | You see , she was wandering at the time . ’ |
| 34 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 35 | She was screaming by the time he caught her , screaming with laughter . |
| 36 | He became very confused and it was suggested that the squadron would like something which she was wearing at the time . |
| 37 | I sincerely hope that Mrs. X 's complaint was not treated in a dismissive way because , as she readily admitted , she was drunk at the time of the assault . |
| 38 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 39 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 40 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 41 | Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect . |
| 42 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 43 | WHY Do we drink coffee ? one answer is to keep us interested in what we are doing at the time — typing , say , or repairing a car . |
| 44 | And say we are coming in no time at all . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ We 're living on a time bomb ’ |
| 46 | We were engaged at the time on a pre-disturbance survey of HMS Hazardous , a man-of-war which sank in November 1706 . |
| 47 | But that was in Lincolnshire , where we were living at the time . |
| 48 | We were separated at the time — the woman in the photographs is Phoebe . |
| 49 | When I annoyed him he would punish me by economising on whatever it was we were doing at the time . |
| 50 | ‘ This bears out what we were saying at the time . ’ |
| 51 | Quite why we were undressed at the time is a mystery , though I do recall your mother being uncharacteristically excitable and an unseemly display of mirth by the ambulance men . |
| 52 | There were no immediate changes , it went on from private enterprise , the changeover We were told at the time that we were just just to carry on the way we 'd been doing . |
| 53 | But spending that hundred thousand pounds as we were told at the time , would only part solve the problem . |
| 54 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you would need real financial help . |
| 55 | As a Bank that looks after its customers ' financial welfare , we know just how important the benefits offered by this Plan could be to you as they are paid at a time when you need real financial help . |
| 56 | Studies have shown that most products pass through a series of stages — their life-cycle — from the time they are introduced until the time they are withdrawn . |
| 57 | We hope it 's sunk in and they 'll know what they 're doing by the time they get to Bosnia . |
| 58 | One of Einstein 's ways of working things out was to take the laws of nature as they were understood at the time and imagine them in unusual fictitious situations — such as , for instance , trying to imagine what it would be like to catch up with a light beam . |
| 59 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |
| 60 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |