Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I , and I mean it 'll be Terry and I available at the time cos I |
| 2 | I was training on my own at the time , and seemed to be constantly injured , so I was n't racing much . |
| 3 | The police makes them streetwise within no time at all , but they 're missing out on something ’ ( FN 9/8/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 4 | A rest in the right surroundings , she implied , would have her tickety-boo in no time . |
| 5 | They were typical of part of what it was like to be homeless — having nowhere to go ; having to avoid all representatives of authority ; feeling tired and generally run-down ; and needing to have my wits at their sharpest at a time when they had become critically undernourished . |
| 6 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 7 | I remember trying to make sense out of these ghostly darting signs that overlaid the story of the film , which most of the time I could n't follow . |
| 8 | He ran at the stairs , taking them three at a time . |
| 9 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 10 | ‘ Just a minute , we 'll have you comfy in no time at all . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you sure of the time , Father ? ’ |
| 12 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 13 | As Meredith Tax says , ‘ Feminist and left-wing writing is talking to itself most of the time . ’ |
| 14 | He 's bitching at me all of the time , he 's complaining , and he 's apt to be yelling at me , too . |
| 15 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 16 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 17 | Steam round them all in no time , using the Steamatic 's extension tubes to reach into every nook and cranny . |
| 18 | In other words , contemporaries viewed bribery as a bargain in which a vote was exchanged for something tangible at a time of election , but quite apart from the general distaste for such transactions , there was insufficient patronage available to permit its lavish use , and there was certainly never enough money . |
| 19 | He decided to take it personally and went straight out with the intention of buying a tree , just to spite her , until he remembered he could get one cheaper nearer the time . |
| 20 | The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time . |
| 21 | Like many animals which only produce one young at a time and may not breed every year , individuals are potentially very long lived , fifty or sixty years may not be unusual for some . |
| 22 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 23 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 24 | One can not in such circumstances as these , please everybody all of the time . |
| 25 | And were they faulty at the time that you the shop sold then to you ? |
| 26 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 27 | How can the poor woman explain that , probably like the majority of wives , she loved him most of the time , when he did n't snore in her ear all night or shout at the kids or keep her short of Bingo money . " |
| 28 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 29 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 30 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |