Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you sure of the time , Father ? ’ |
| 4 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 5 | The shed running foreman had asked Sam if he would take young John as there was no one available at the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And were they faulty at the time that you the shop sold then to you ? |
| 8 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 9 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 10 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 11 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 12 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 13 | Never mind , we 'll have it clean by the time the pie 's ready . ’ |
| 14 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 15 | I was determined to render myself generic by the time I left university . |
| 16 | To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation . |
| 17 | ‘ For pity 's sake just sit there and try not to do anything silly for the time it takes me to fill two bowls with cawl . ’ |