Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 2 | pester me about this time |
| 3 | As he said himself of this time , ‘ I yearned to live a semi-bohemian lifestyle , an unstructured life ; but a consecrated one ; some kind of calling . ’ |
| 4 | I conceive many People would be happy with an Art of this kind or at least it would be useful to those who die abroad and are brought back home : I often used to talk of embalming but never seriously took it in hand ‘ til the year before last , which to this time is well preserved . |
| 5 | On the other side was the team from the Consortium of Opposing Local Authorities ( COLA , which by this time had twenty-one local council members and a budget approaching £1 million . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly the Coronations were the most handsome cars ever operated at Blackpool , unfortunately they were constructed to a pre-War concept , which by this time had become outmoded . |
| 7 | In due course they were fitted to all the ex-Croydon E/1 type cars , which by this time were the only ex-Croydon cars still in service . |
| 8 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 9 | The tracers were seen bouncing off the other breakwater , which by this time was also firing at the aircraft with similar results . |
| 10 | This in turn reduced the maintenance costs of removing and replacing 200 flying hour cassettes from their positions , which by this time were required to be near the tail of the aircraft in order that they might have the maximum chance of surviving impact forces in a crash . |
| 11 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 12 | It contained an area of nineteenth-century by-law housing , the old commercial centre of the town which by this time was in a semi-derelict condition , and the slum-cleared and redeveloped area of Dockwray Square with medium-rise council flats . |
| 13 | On the other hand the fine ivory work from Nimrud suggests that the Assyrians made use of the workshops of Tyre , which by this time may have been constrained to use ivory from Africa . |
| 14 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 15 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 16 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 17 | I 'll be all right in a minute ’ , and then she goes , ‘ I 'll let you off this time ’ , and then I did it again — a really loud one , and she goes , ‘ Fay , you 're going to have to go to the Headmistress ’ , she goes … |
| 18 | We need an effective independent regulator , not the mafia regulating mafia and saying it 's quite understandable boy , we 'll let you off this time which is what happens now er with the Institute of Chartered Accountants er as a recognised supervisory body er in this er in this particular field . |
| 19 | I 've decided to let you off this time . ’ |
| 20 | He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention . |
| 21 | His illness began to manifest itself during this time but , being David , he refused to allow it to interfere with his duties as President . |
| 22 | The most dramatic development of the last quarter of a century has been the emergence of the urban-rural shift as a major factor in population redistribution , but in the late 1970s and early 1980s its strength waned somewhat , as too did the pace of local decentralization , whereas the North-South divide reasserted itself at this time after a period of lower significance . |
| 23 | On the other hand , among those blasted , if one understood well enough about ‘ Rabindranath Tagore , from whose recitations ad infinitum we all suffered a great deal about this time ’ , why pick on Thomas Beecham , who at this time with the backing of Lady Cunard was embarking on a lifelong crusade for English opera ? |
| 24 | The Commission 's cited source for this information was Dr P F Chester of the CEGB , while those thanked for ‘ helpful suggestions during drafting ’ included Dr R A Skeffington , a researcher with the CEGB who at this time was also showing pictures of perfectly healthy trees from the Black Forest to British conferences . |
| 25 | He may have been influenced by the views of the parliamentary reformer Major Cartwright who at this time was on an organisational subcommittee . |
| 26 | In addition , he became acquainted with Preston Goodfellow , who at this time worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) ; Goodfellow played an important if opaque role in advancing Rhee 's career in 1945–46 . |
| 27 | Mothers should be able to say ‘ I do n't love you at this time ’ instead of the belief that ‘ I am your mother , therefore , I love you ’ which we are all programmed to believe . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 29 | However , as the month progresses , you 're likely to realise how important security is to you at this time . |
| 30 | At the time of his ascension , how does Jesus respond to the question put to him by his disciples , ‘ Lord , will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel ? ’ |