Example sentences of "time like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 2 | I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that . |
| 3 | Do you think that at a time like this I am afraid of words ? … if he dies tonight there will always be a gulf at my side , a gulf into which I must never fall ’ ( p. 87 ) . |
| 4 | An emergency at a time like this could spoil everything . |
| 5 | I think if you saw what David did afterwards , he was obviously attracted to the one-man show that Tony Newley was doing at the time like , ‘ Stop The World ’ and things like that , and the lyrics appealed to him . |
| 6 | Ari tried to wriggle away from him a little , somehow annoyed he could say a thing like that at a time like this . |
| 7 | Overall the cost of a funeral often comes as a big shock to people and the vicar 's fees , peripheral as they are to the main bill , come in for lots of cynical comments like ‘ Even at a time like this , the church is making money . ’ |
| 8 | The book is full of jolts and cracks in time like this one . |
| 9 | If you want to be one of the crowd , there 's no time like now to book a piece of the action . |
| 10 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 11 | There 's no time like the present , ’ Laura replied . |
| 12 | Never as in a time like the present — of radical social change in Italy as in other European countries , of the transition from an industrial to a service economy ( Italy 's second major economic revolution in 30 years ) , of the questioning of many social values , above all in the matter of social relations ( between the sexes , between friends , between producer and consumer ) , of profound uncertainty about the future , commingled with fear , anxiety and even expectation — never has the impotence of literature been so apparent , its inability to say the word which , in Montale 's phrase , ‘ squares us off on every side ’ ( Montale 1977 : 47 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought it odd an Englishman should visit Vienna at a time like this . ’ |
| 15 | Must be an uncomfortable feeling at a time like this . |
| 16 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The ultimate driving machine ’ the ads said , a claim that was to stand the test of time like few others , establishing principles of BMW motoring as true today as ever . |
| 18 | It was at that time like wine to be in the presence of the Lusignan Bastard , ebullient , assured of success , glowing with pride in himself and his army . |
| 19 | Anna hated the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't cry all the time like Corrie Palmer . |
| 20 | there 's no time like summer for throwing a party . |
| 21 | Time like a clock with its hands tied . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ I suppose it 's natural for an only daughter to want to be with her mother at a time like this , particularly with a first baby . ’ |
| 23 | None of us spoke of the war , in which ( I think ) none of us much believed ; but it was there all the time like ? nagging pain . |
| 24 | It 's funny how the mind works at a time like this I could n't hear anything so I called : ‘ Warton , Golf Zulu Sierra . |
| 25 | ‘ Why , at a time like this ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Our message is that there has never been a time like this to pick up a bargain , ’ a spokeswoman said . |
| 27 | I mean , I would have expected something a bit more spiritual for a time like this . |
| 28 | Carroll in Forest Gate argued that ‘ class legislation ’ was impossible , ‘ especially at a time like the present when the nation is stirred to its very vitals by unemployment and general stagnation of trade ’ ( Election leaflet 1921 ) . |
| 29 | Nevertheless a strong archaic effect is produced , by inversion of nouns and adjectives , careful selection of adverbs of time like ‘ yet ’ and ‘ seldom ’ , and other less obvious linguistic features . |
| 30 | I pointed out how dangerous it would be , and — well , how damaging to me in my position if my wife went to Ireland at a time like this . ’ |