Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 2 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
| 3 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking of a time scale of about ten years ahead . |
| 5 | ‘ All that work beforehand — I 'm exhausted by the time we sit down to eat . |
| 6 | We were I was I was patrolling at the time , with me partner . |
| 7 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry , I think I 've forgotten what I was thinking at the time , erm |
| 9 | Only I was passing at the time . |
| 10 | Later that evening , going on my farewell walk round Cuzco , I fought to be positive , talking to myself like a character in a novel I was reading at the time , David Copperfield 's aunt . |
| 11 | On the other hand , although I was exhausted by the time I arrived in Sydney , having lost the equivalent of two nights ' sleep , it was not unproductive in terms of collecting tennis news . |
| 12 | I was exhausted by the time that ‘ An Evening without John McCarthy ’ arrived , but the venue , the Camden Palace , was n't far from my flat and , prompted by nerves , I turned up early , about an hour before things were due to begin . |
| 13 | No , I do n't know what it , he did n't bang on the doors , I was hoovering at the time Is that nice ? |
| 14 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 15 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 16 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I sing it and listen to the words again and appreciate more than ever what I was feeling at the time , ’ he told friends . |
| 18 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 19 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 20 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 21 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 22 | You are covered from the time of leaving home to the time of arrival home from your holiday . |
| 23 | When you feel like ‘ beating yourself up ’ , observe how you are acting at the time . |
| 24 | Next you have to decide when to enter the date and time information — do you want to use the spreadsheet like a time clock where you record what you are doing at the time you do it or will you use it to maintain a post-hoc record and enter dates and times in batches . |
| 25 | And th the stories that you read are all , all for children are they ones that you 're reading from a book , or are they ones that you 're inventing at the time , or what ? |
| 26 | Oh in fact you 're not even you could never have to go back to that same place but depends on where what you 're doing at the time that assignment comes up for reselling . |
| 27 | You were looking at the time , but it did n't come up , I mean . |
| 28 | If you were separated at the time , you are still treated as a dependant . |
| 29 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
| 30 | You did n't know what you were doing at the time . |