Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died . |
| 2 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 3 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 4 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 5 | And should she at any time be incapacitated , Henry had to bring the books to her , and she would scrutinise every penny that went out or came in . |
| 6 | ‘ I would 'ave agreed wiv yer at one time , ’ Sadie replied . |
| 7 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |
| 8 | Did it matter to you at that time who it was ? |
| 9 | You took a good deal with you at that time I presume |
| 10 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | However , as the month progresses , you 're likely to realise how important security is to you at this time . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | Your answers will provide you with general categories of physical activities that are appropriate for you at this time . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry to bother you at this time of night . |
| 17 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 18 | A serious accident could happen to you at any time today , tomorrow , next year . |
| 19 | ‘ You can resign in the complete knowledge that should you ever want to come back there will be a position here for you at any time . ’ |
| 20 | I think we certainly agree with you in terms of locality , and it 's open to you at any time , I would have thought , to be in touch with Katherine , and say , ‘ Would you follow up on x or y ’ . |
| 21 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 22 | No doubt they will want to interview you at some time . |
| 23 | Now at this juncture here you would n't actually say what products you 're gon na do , cos you 're not gon na go back and say well I 'm thinking of er two hundred thousand pounds of convertible term assurance and we 're looking personal pension plan , but you 'll tell the guy you 're gon na go back to the branch , we 've got a variety of different things sir and what I wan na do is to go back to the branch and work on one or two ideas for you and then present them to you at some time in the future . |
| 24 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 25 | I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean . |
| 26 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 27 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 28 | ‘ There were few people really close to him at that time . ’ |
| 29 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 30 | Stratford responded by invoking Magna Carta 's principle of trial by peers , which for him at that time meant trial by the lords in parliament . |