Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He recalled his telling him about the time he went into a pub when a man suggested having sex with him and pulled down his trousers in front of the assembled company . |
| 32 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 33 | It reminded her of the time she had slept here , and woken to find him beside her with his arm around her in his beautifully furnished bedroom . |
| 34 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 35 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 36 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 37 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 38 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 39 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 40 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 41 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 42 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 43 | Er had they by the time you were still at school come on to that new erm er system where you speak a lot more ? |
| 44 | We never noticed it during the time it took for me to qualify and start work as an intern at St Andrew 's in Marylebone . |
| 45 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 46 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 47 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 48 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 49 | I 'll suspect get it by the time they go |
| 50 | You 'll believe it by the time you leave here — ’ |
| 51 | Well I think if that was me I 'd have that done now in case you do n't like it by the time you you get married and that could be growing again . |
| 52 | And of course it th it 's more often done that with the kettle of course , so that it 's it by the time you get to the end of the job you do n't want a cup of tea anyway . |
| 53 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |
| 54 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 55 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 56 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 57 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 58 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 59 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 60 | And what about the time he had interrupted Lord Boddy , and then realized that all he had wanted to say was that it was interesting ? |