Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was near at the time , with Tiffany , in Mansfield . |
| 2 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 3 | Well I was n't at the time . |
| 4 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 5 | I was on at the time , I had my period . |
| 6 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I know because I was there at the time . ’ |
| 8 | But er , I did n't believe in , well it was me dad 's pigs of course , but I was there at the time as well like , you know . |
| 9 | I was there at the time . ’ |
| 10 | I was still at the time in a relationship with a man I had lived with for four years and was emotionally dependent on , in more ways than one given my immigrant status in this country . |
| 11 | I think the fact that I was abroad at the time may have had something to do with it — having left the country I 'd also left my conscience behind . |
| 12 | She was away at the time |
| 13 | ‘ We ca n't fix a definite time of death until after the post mortem , but we 're working on the assumption that it was shortly after the time agreed for the rendezvous — midnight . |
| 14 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 15 | ‘ It was n't at the time , ’ she said , ‘ because I did n't know it was inexplicable . |
| 16 | and so you know looking back on it , was all rather funny but erm , it was n't at the time of course particularly for the children and erm mothers . |
| 17 | It was n't at the time because you had a real complex about it but |
| 18 | Seb knew it was well past the time he and Carrie should have retired to their respective bedrooms , but he found the thought of mentioning bed vaguely embarrassing . |
| 19 | Erm so that is and what we 're doing is to try and recreate the appearance of the house as it was not in the time when the canons had it , but when William had it because we know a lot about him and his family and also we know more about the furnishings of that period . |
| 20 | It was just around the time you were born , Baptiste said : I do n't remember it either . |
| 21 | We held a referendum on Britain 's membership of the Community in order to extract the Labour party from the difficulty that it was in at the time . |
| 22 | However , although early Greek literacy must therefore also be labelled ‘ restricted ’ , the foundation was nevertheless being laid for future developments of the ‘ full ’ potential of literacy : ‘ It was only by the time of Plato that the language had changed sufficiently to express new ideas ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 23 | Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know . |
| 24 | In temperament , Coleman appears to have been somewhat mercurial , and he could be despondent , as he was understandably at the time of his wife 's illness . |
| 25 | One can be both part of the international abstract art and some of his work is abstract , and even in that context bring into it qualities that once one knows the idiom people can recognize as purely English and one can also , at the same time as he was much of the time , be a figurative artist that do landscapes , interiors , figure paintings ( rarely ) , and figure drawings of a very high quality , and again they are partly of an international modern and they are partly essentially English works . |