Example sentences of "[prep] they [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 2 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 3 | ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time . |
| 4 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 5 | There was something between them at the time . ’ |
| 6 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 7 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 8 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 9 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 10 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 11 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 12 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 13 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 14 | However , since fourteen topics were listed , even fairly full courses must have paid quite limited attention to any one topic , in order to cover all of them in the time available . |
| 15 | Southerners are apt to fantasize on the phone , usually about someone with them at the time , often a work colleague . |
| 16 | He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition . |
| 17 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 18 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 19 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 20 | But it does n't seem like that to them at the time . |
| 21 | Sequestered within were Pet Shop Boys NEIL TENNANT and CHRIS LOWE — who earlier had the hair-raising experience of being mobbed in the cinema by ticket-buying fans who , in their rush to obtain autographs with menaces , completely ignored a squirming BARNEY from NEW ORDER/ELECTRONIC who was sat next to them at the time . |
| 22 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 23 | Human possums avoid conflict by agreeing with whichever side is talking to them at the time . |
| 24 | It is difficult to assess the long term benefit of such a campaign as individual cases now coming to light clearly heard some of the publicity which was beneficial to them at the time but did not result in them making a call at that particular time . |
| 25 | I , I actually think they probably did use up all that was possible available to them at the time , and so , in some ways , this is against the spirit of the policy , although the policies have been changed , and I hear what Councillor said about improvement to the place , and so I do n't think we 'd serve any useful purpose in stopping these people doing this , because they 're probably not the people who were responsible for the flagrant disobeying of the rules at the time . |
| 26 | For the purpose of its own capital gains base cost the purchaser of assets buys those assets at the value attributed to them at the time of purchase . |
| 27 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 28 | They 're using a bank pamphlet given to them at the time as their evidence . |
| 29 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 30 | the thing is that something must happen to them by the time they reach the age of twenty three that makes us want to marry them . |