Example sentences of "be [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the time necessary to switch from the current system for collecting national insurance to one based on annual assessment . |
| 2 | She was my doctor at the time , she was she was oh she was a grand person was Doctor . |
| 3 | It 's not a view that I particularly share but erm it was their view at the time . |
| 4 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 5 | According to the Shaka'ik biography of Mehmed Sah , the latter was appointed to that medrese at the age of eighteen ( Mecdi gives seventeen ) ; and it is clear from that account that Fahreddin Acemi was his muid at the time of his first lesson . |
| 6 | It had taken him only half-an-hour to reach the heralded target figure , and it was poetic justice that Graham Gooch was his partner at the time . |
| 7 | And what was your job at the time ? |