Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 2 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 3 | I am not too fond of fishing on my own at any time , and I really dislike it at night . |
| 4 | Anyway , it 's been in my mind to step out on my own for some time now . |
| 5 | She was in her thirties at this time . |
| 6 | Outside the family , the claims of work and career ( which may be at their strongest at this time ) may either frustrate paternal longings or provide compensation for the displacement . |
| 7 | Consequently its Laplace transform is or The unit impulse function is infinite for an infinitesimal time as indicated in figure 11.5(d) and its integral over all time is unity . |
| 8 | Geochemistry has been categorised on its own at some times , but has been combined with Petrology , or with Mineralogy and Petrology , at other times . |
| 9 | ‘ Not at its best at this time of year . ’ |
| 10 | Activities associated with exploration — sledging , ski-marching , hunting , tending dog teams , even walking on snow and carrying heavy clothing — all involve hard work , for which two to three times the normal caloric intake is required . |
| 11 | Rabbits : Rabbits give birth to their young at this time of year . |
| 12 | He saw nothing unusual at that time . ’ |
| 13 | Usual congestion down the Botley Road still , and down the Abingdon Road , that 's nothing unusual for this time in the evening . |
| 14 | I would like to thank you all at this time on behalf of the Association and the sport we represent for all your efforts you make for us in an unpaid capacity and time given voluntary to all . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time . |
| 16 | But attempts to define breadth and balance rapidly meet a difficult problem : all subjects wish to claim compulsory status ; however , it then proves difficult to fit them all into reasonable time allocations . |
| 17 | Although nobody ever remarked upon the fact , it was tacitly acknowledged now that Nails slept with Firelight ; he had been discovered by them all at one time or another early in the morning still asleep . |
| 18 | You do n't have to have them all at one time ? |
| 19 | Well if I do n't talk them all through five times there 's something wrong . |
| 20 | Okay , so ha if you 're going to reward at the point of of actually doing the desired behaviour you 've got a problem because people er you may not be able to give them something appropriate at that time which is rewarding . |
| 21 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 22 | Maybe it 's a subtle ploy of Tims to figure out whose awake at this time in the morning : - ) . |
| 23 | I want to have everything ready in good time . |
| 24 | You should borrow him one of these times . |
| 25 | The experience was enough to keep him preoccupied for some time . |
| 26 | ‘ The Swiss surveillance team employed by our agent does n't mention seeing him drunk at any time . |
| 27 | Were they aware at that time of how experimental they were being ? |
| 28 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 29 | Her temper made it inadvisable at other times . |
| 30 | But the complication involved in writing the program and allowing for the high number of physical variables made it impracticable at that time . |