Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] time i " in BNC.
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1 | About the same time I heard gunfire . |
2 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
3 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
4 | At the same time I doubt whether the state alone can solve it . |
5 | Because I could n't countenance how you could stay under water without being asphyxiated , and yet at the same time I was incapable of comprehending the trick . |
6 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |
7 | ‘ I knew I had n't done anything to Joanna and at the same time I was totally confused as to how it could have happened . ’ |
8 | But at the same time I want to stress how crucially important to CAFOD are the offerings from the coming Family Fast Day . |
9 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
10 | At the same time I think there was a certain kind of love — detached but concerned — in the background of all he did , a love that steadily grew , without display , without spoken devotion ; and I , too , never spoke of ‘ love ’ . |
11 | Beads of blood appeared along the cuts , which alarmed me , though at the same time I could see that the wounds were superficial . |
12 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
13 | I eat carefully , my heartbeat quickens nervously when the portions offered are too big , and at the same time I 'm trying not to draw attention to my small plateful . |
14 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
15 | At the same time I was dazzled by the breech of a 75-millimetre gun which was standing uncovered in the sunlight : the magic of light on white metal . |
16 | He had a stubborn determination about him , and at the same time I think he was really exhausted ; he was really exhausted , physically and emotionally . |
17 | At 1.15 a.m. , however , the bite alarm on my flake-baited rod shrills out its sudden warning , the silver foil smacks the rod and at the same time I grasp the cork butt and drive the hook into a lip . |
18 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
19 | I sensed the cold outside and I felt a sensation of warmth ; at the same time I felt a strong compassion for all the homeless of the world . |
20 | I sha n't be trampled on , Flick , do n't you worry — but at the same time I sha n't go through life as gracefully as you , or with a flourish of trumpets like Gay . |
21 | At the same time I placed a leg between his ; the object being to prevent him bringing up his knee against my balls.The plan was to throw both of us to the ground — at the right moment . |
22 | The irresponsibility of this helped me to escape the force of the problems , but at the same time I was constantly troubled by suspicion . |
23 | ‘ It was great for doing Wes Montgomery , but at the same time I was playing Hendrix and Bloomfield and all kinds of stuff on this poor old hollowbody — and I was using Marshalls as well ! |
24 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
25 | At the same time I reminded her that she was feeling comfortable and relaxed and completely free from tension . |
26 | But at the same time I want to go to parties . |
27 | I paused to marshal all my heartfelt arguments against the cruise-cure , but at the same time I felt a sudden and oceanic surge of homesickness . |
28 | I applied to correspondence courses for writing , I joined a music workshop , and at the same time I had to rush into a job , as I came over with just one bag and no money . ’ |
29 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
30 | But at the same time I was learning the lesson that such behaviour is not acceptable to adults , to whom I presented a different personality . |