Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] at time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can staff arrange for others to work for them at times of crisis ? |
| 2 | This would enable readers to identify outhoused books , and to submit requests for them at times which tie in with the scheduled delivery service . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been a frustrating season for me at times , because of the brilliant form of Pears . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been a frustrating season for me at times , because of the brilliant form of Pears . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I 'm no angel , Robyn , I know my temper gets the better of me at times , but you must understand the pressure that I was under too . |
| 6 | A dozen or more of them at times . |
| 7 | No I ca n't er , I ca n't tell you that I did definitely , although I , I 've heard a lot of them at times but er , I 'm not sure . |
| 8 | Now the boatmen they used to erm the name , the family of a name of , and the old man , the grandfather his name was and then they had three sons who were boatmen , one was called Arthur John , one had a nickname of Snowball , the other one 's name was George and they used to er , some of them at times used to row from the lock gates out to the Cork Lightship together to get a boat , so they made sure of roping that boat in at , at er in the dock or at Cliff Quay and course they used to get the captain of the ship to sign er a bill and they used to take that to the , to the shipping agent and then he 'd pay 'em the money . |
| 9 | Television in every home may be a blessing for the old and infirm , indeed for all of us at times , but that , the motor car , foreign travel and umpteen other things have all combined to affect attitudes towards sport and leisure . |
| 10 | There 's nobody in this world more sorry for you at times than I am , for you could have been a real good-lookin' , strappin' fella . |
| 11 | You seem to be going through everything this season it seems to be a nightmare for you at times . |
| 12 | Barnsley survived fierce pressure but Boro struggled to create real scoring chances , though luck was against them at times . |
| 13 | Indeed , the internal acrimony levelled against him at times has been such that , when his departure was announced , the best that some figures within the health network could say was ‘ we 'll be very happy to wish him goodbye ’ . |
| 14 | If the lad was a bit stern with her at times , it was only for her own good . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She talks of little else and makes me quite vexed with her at times . |
| 16 | I think the clergy wonder what to do with him at times . |
| 17 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 18 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 19 | A nice , sensible girl , mad on animals , and very helpful to me at times . |
| 20 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 21 | ‘ Not what you 'd call a Major Thoroughfare , ’ said William 's nan , who had a sarcastic tongue on her at times . |
| 22 | Eleanor was a bit of a trial to him at times . |
| 23 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 24 | are like that , but pillows have your head sweating on 'em at times are n't we ? |
| 25 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 26 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |
| 27 | You 're not above mentioning your height , even bragging about it at times , saying you 're as good as any two men twice your size . |
| 28 | Before the darkness came , you might have come across him at times pushing a pramful of camping equipment , perhaps with a grandson straggling at his side , on some remote road through Eigiau , Abergeirw or Pennant Lliw . |