Example sentences of "[adv] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
| 2 | So the time I spend with them would be more profitably employed here in the surgery . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , the only the time he 'd been paid |
| 4 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 5 | I was however able to amuse myself by annoying the stewardesses by buzzing them every five to ten minutes asking for a drink , hence the time I spent in the toilet . |
| 6 | Perhaps nearer the time you could send details of the weekend course plus the costing for it . |
| 7 | I remembered also the time we finally accepted that British Council invitation and went to give a poetry reading in Madrid . |
| 8 | Linley had called his publisher and asked the name of the restaurant where they had lunched and also the time they had left . |
| 9 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 10 | Just about the time they had seen the signpost , the rain had started in earnest . |
| 11 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 12 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 13 | Just about the time you 've admitted taking two hundred stolen notes from Jack 's wife . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Last Saturday night , just about the time you were with his wife at that party in Fulham . |
| 15 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 16 | If the intervals are not regular but are simply the time it takes the operator to change the subject and are not perceptible , it becomes stop-motion ( or single frame ) animation proper — the movement is created , but not actually recorded . |
| 17 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 18 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 19 | Financed to the tune of FFr5 million by the giant British chemical firm ICI , which also paid FFr2 million towards the Salle des Fetes exhibition and a special laser-lit dinner for 1,000 under the Louvre pyramid , restoration of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ took two and a half years — almost twice the time it took the thirty-four year-old , Verona-born artist and his brother Benedetto to paint Christ 's first miracle for the refectory of the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice in 1562–63 . |
| 20 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 21 | Wes 's greatest triumph was undoubtedly the time he removed the grating from the coal cellar outside Skeldale House . |
| 22 | Erm indeed I saw him , I saw Ronnie once in a hotel in er in Washington , this was the time it was n't actually the time he was shot cos I got away that time but the |
| 23 | Well actually the time I went in it was erm when Gillian was thinking of buying it |