Example sentences of "[adj] time as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 2 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |
| 3 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 4 | Avoid all restaurant or take-away food during this time as it is difficult to know what you are eating . |
| 5 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 6 | ‘ This time as I talked I felt the ground move . |
| 7 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 8 | His distorted hands were clumsy about her throat and this time as she struggled , kicking and gasping , it was skin on skin , not a fantasy attack that did no harm . |
| 9 | In summer , such free time as she had was spent on the Moor . |
| 10 | They were silent for some time as they picked their way in single file along the path that wound up the hillside . |
| 11 | Silence reigned for some time as they attacked the meal . |
| 12 | Mr Kingsley Low , general secretary of the British Beekeepers ' Association , said : ‘ We have been expecting to find varroa for some time as it is so widespread on the Continent . |
| 13 | There was silence in the room for some time as he waited for Frank to regain his composure , to ask the inevitable questions . |
| 14 | So what was wrong with her ? she asked herself for the hundredth time as she sat sipping a glass of wine in his apartment in the Barbican some weeks after they 'd first met . |
| 15 | But sometimes if we 've got the wrong fuse in it wo n't blow and it will continue to feed the electric current through to the heater or whatever piece of electrical apparatus it is , until such times as we have a fire situation . |
| 16 | And wait to such times as they could pay it back , |
| 17 | the window size or the kitchen size or the bathroom size , they ca n't price things out until such times as they 've sat down face to face with client . |
| 18 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 19 | ‘ Until such times as they can do this , Her Majesty 's Government should get on with the task of governing Northern Ireland in a positive fashion , including the alternative means of returning powers to locally-elected representatives . ’ |
| 20 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 21 | Beverly Grzybkowski , 36 , stabbed her husband Andrew six times as he was about to attack 15-year-old Michael with a 2ft-long club . |
| 22 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 23 | I think what we have got to bear in mind , Mr Chairman , is that the small business is , it is a very , very dangerous time as we come out of recession , more businesses get into difficulties when they 're into expanding , than when they 're just , just surviving , if you like so erm , I think we have to keep a very careful eye on the next six months . |
| 24 | Charles became as adept at changing nappies and bathing William as Diana , and , even when he was small , both spent as much time as they could with him . |
| 25 | Both she and Dr Leitch spent as much time as they could spare talking to the young parents who would come to collect these patients on discharge . |
| 26 | If training officers themselves are not common , staff who can devote as much time as they would like , to training , ( whatever their title ) appear to be very rare indeed . |
| 27 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 28 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 29 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
| 30 | In the lakes so , they 're gon na spend as much time as they can round the |