Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] the time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe erm the rulers of Kuwait at the time were very erm wise to make such treaty with the British for the protection of their country and the British respected the Kuwait autonomy at the time and this joint erm respect for each other I believe which gave rise to Kuwait to be what it is today . |
| 2 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 3 | We thanked the WO officials for the time and trouble they had taken to discuss all these issues with us . |
| 4 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 5 | It is a tribute to EMI engineers of the time and their faithful successors today that this and the even earlier ( 1937 ) version of Sibelius 's Fourth Symphony come up sounding so truthful ( CDM7 64027 2 ) . |