Example sentences of "[noun sg] about [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to have originated in the personal computer segment about the time Compaq proved it could supply 286 machines that were comparable to IBM 's … and do so in a more timely fashion . |
| 2 | Arthur immediately started to tell a story about a time in music hall when he had set out to behave less admirably and had cost a theatre manager a packet . |
| 3 | I 'm reminded of the story about the time when a British Rail advertising contract was up for grabs . |
| 4 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a lot of talk about the time when she and Kate — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Most days , poor man , an ’ talk about the time he was a boy . |
| 7 | A , but what I 'm sa , wha the point you were making Adrian , is tha , is is that 's what you 've got ta keep in mind about every time you walk into a business or phone up a business , that it does matter that it 's in , your , that 's not what we want cos I 'm telling you , you know , do n't you know , the security guys photographing , you know , lampposts and stuff like that . |
| 8 | We are seeking God 's guidance about the time to go to Caux . |
| 9 | ‘ — that she 's got amnesia about the time when she nearly drowned , ’ Edward said . |
| 10 | I chose to end the period about the time when the role of the Railway was beginning to be superseded by buses , lorries and private cars . |
| 11 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 12 | Notice that periodic waves that are even functions of time , that is , symmetric about the time origin , can be represented by a constant and just cosine waves , while waves that are odd functions of time , that is , reversed in sign about the time origin , can be represented by just sine waves . |
| 13 | He was made aware of his impending appointment about the time of Hunt 's report , but it was not until 1st January , 1859 that he was sent his official letter of appointment . |
| 14 | ‘ The police have checked your tale about the time Connie disappeared ? ’ |
| 15 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 16 | The document said the Government was aware of concern about the time taken to complete assessments and that admitted unnecessary delays caused ‘ undue anxiety ’ to parents . |
| 17 | Moreover , unlike most medieval letter writers — and , for that matter , even unlike most of us today when we dash off our epistles without much thought about the time — Petrarch ‘ spells out the dates ( including the hour ) with weight and deliberation , as if to stress the importance of taking one 's bearings in time ’ . |
| 18 | Would their children talk with similar nostalgia about the time their dads led ‘ the North Bank on a charge against the Chelsea ‘ Shed ’ ? ss Sport presents a problem for such youths . |
| 19 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 20 | Can I just ask one thing , a another thing about the time you were living in , erm did you as a woman know anything about contraception ? |
| 21 | Even an agreement about the time you might get up in the morning , and who gets up first , for instance , is important . |
| 22 | Robert then spoke to my mother about the time when they were young . |
| 23 | Even though caring meant postponing many of the plans Mary and Jim had for their retirement , when her father died , Mary expressed satisfaction about the time spent caring for him . |
| 24 | By inventing this yarn about the time Connie left the sanatorium , you 've tied yourself right in this thing . |