Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 2 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 3 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 4 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 5 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 6 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 7 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 8 | And er after that it was just well every man for himself I never really saw any of the guys except for the o one guy who was on the platform with me at the time . |
| 9 | I do not know why but that did not seem to register with me at the time , and it did not until there was a third assault on the door . |
| 10 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 11 | I recall his emphasis on the last eleven words — and how they struck chill into me at the time . |
| 12 | I ca n't say I 'm doing a Page-type thing in the studio , but he was someone who was able to make very soulful records , and that was something that generated excitement in me at the time . |
| 13 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 14 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 15 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 16 | The non-robbed make more relaxing if complacent company and Gilles , big loudmouth that he was , gave out an air of confidence that was appealing to me at the time . |
| 17 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 18 | Unknown to me at the time , other significant dispersals had already taken place . |
| 19 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 20 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 21 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 22 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 23 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 24 | It must be said before we proceed further that this model is so new that no handbook was available to me at the time of writing . |
| 25 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 26 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 27 | For instance , Snow White is fed by means of tubes , a procedure which , unknown to me at the time , is still a common practice in the treatment of anorexics . |
| 28 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 29 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 30 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |