Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 2 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 3 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 4 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |
| 5 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 6 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |
| 7 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 8 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 9 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 10 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 11 | Their new single , Family , includes all these elements and could be the one that breaks them into the big time . |
| 12 | He 's the chairman of the slump-hit Pearson Group , which owns everything from the Financial Times to Madame Tussauds waxworks . |
| 13 | Each of these seems to derive something from the interruptable time of the television chronotope , and its consequently segmented narrative . |
| 14 | As the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) advised everyone in the Financial Times last week , ’ There is nothing to prevent a group of countries pressing on with a separate Treaty The fact is that we can not , even if we wished , stop the others going ahead . ’ |
| 15 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 16 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 17 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 18 | Old friends who had forgotten her during the hard times . |
| 19 | When she spent all night every night watching her clientele , her boys , it was for this ; she was waiting for her chosen ones , the last of her protegés , her perfect couple , her two to see her through the dark times . |
| 20 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 21 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 22 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 23 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 24 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 25 | catch him at the right time . |
| 26 | I mean they ca n't , they ca n't possibly do everything for everybody at the right time I mean |
| 27 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 29 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 30 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |