Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 1.6 This allowance is based upon staff who are at the top of the grade at the present time and translates into the following : |
| 4 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 5 | He has to get the barley , go out at the right time and sow it . |
| 6 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 7 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 8 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |
| 9 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 10 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 11 | So we need to get the word of God , go out with it at the right time and leave it with people . |
| 12 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 13 | Indeed , she could n't have got closer to doing what Cara wanted than to drive up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's house at the appointed time and ring his doorbell . |
| 14 | Prenatal diagnosis often improves the management of such cases by allowing the baby to be delivered at the best time and place for appropriate surgery . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( In their 1988 survey , Mintel noted that ‘ the proportion of consumer expenditure represented by alcohol consumption has fallen steadily , whilst at the same time that spent on leisure as a whole has increased ’ ( Hunt , p42 ) . ) |
| 18 | At the same time that does create pressures upon the school and in particular it creates pressures upon you in terms of finding the money in order to ensure that those pupils are resourced adequately . |
| 19 | The company was due to announce new RISC machines in October , and originally wanted to release a 680X0 offering at the same time but has cancelled its decision . |
| 20 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
| 21 | He gives an example about lifting a heavy weight and doing a multiplication sum at the same time and says you ca n't do it . |
| 22 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 23 | It 's useful when you 've got to contact lots of staff or get information to many people at the same time and allows you to put detailed information down . |
| 24 | Maddison and Shearer arrived at the Dell from their native north-east at the same time and shared a house when they were virtual unknowns . |
| 25 | When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another . |
| 26 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 27 | Once we were in New York at the same time and stayed in separate hotels . |
| 28 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 29 | If you are the singer and guitarist it is difficult trying to remember the words , play guitar at the same time and think of something witty to say between the songs , ’ he says . |
| 30 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |