Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful .
2 Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain .
3 ‘ I do n't know that he will : but he was in High Places at the right times so it 's worth trying the Good Old Times routine … ’
4 The teenager tapped into data systems across the world , including targets at the Financial Times and universities , using a £200 home computer his mother bought him for Christmas when he was 14 .
5 Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled .
6 I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner .
7 The unpredictable English weather meant that delivering the leaves at the right time and at exactly the right stage of development for silkworms to thrive on them was impossible .
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