Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] time [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , originally er I was involved in er registration , because there , with this very loose connection with the registrar , by now I was full time with the council , as rating assistant and rent collector . |
| 2 | As space has diminished , our capacity to think ahead has expanded ; but it is when we are given time on the ball , and space to move , that our limitations are exposed . |
| 3 | And then there are special times ; when planning a family : as an expectant or nursing mother ; when it 's that time of the month ; or simply when you run out of time to eat properly . |
| 4 | Bridal Gown It 's that time of the month : Gladwell 's debut collection evokes the cyclical nature of womanhood , throwing down a bloodied gauntlet in the shape of these gripping stories and essays |
| 5 | It 's that time of the year again . |
| 6 | Primarily because it 's that time of the year when things will start going bad . |
| 7 | Hi , John , it 's that time of the year for us to talk about your pension , look I 'm in your area next week , when can we get together ? |
| 8 | you ha , it 's first time for the whole year you 've seen some of them , and so on . |
| 9 | Afterwards it 's collapsing time in the drawing room . |
| 10 | So it 's less time in the library , and more time with a brush in one hand and this month 's copy of AIM in the other . |
| 11 | There are long stretches when I forget this experience totally , so much so that when it suddenly comes into my mind again it is each time with the shock of newness . |
| 12 | Connolly 's famous valedictory — ‘ It is closing time in the gardens of the West ’ — may be little more than the self-excusing of an indolent man , but what replaced Horizon ( 1940 — 50 ) and Penguin New Writing ( 1940–50 ) was something far brisker and far less mandarin . |
| 13 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 14 | ‘ I think it was some time in the seventies , ’ said Ken . |
| 15 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 16 | It was some time before the fashion magazines and newspapers started to write about this street culture , but when THE FACE wrote a big feature on the subject in its July 1983 issue the floodgates opened . |
| 17 | The city was in mourning for Marie-Thérèse de Bourbon ( first wife of the Dauphin Louis ) and it was some time before the prospect of playing at court arose . |
| 18 | It was some time after the construction of the capital 's tramway system , and it may well be that the true origins of the tale lay in a superstitious dread of this foreign technology . |