Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 2 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
| 3 | yeah and erm she was snogging someone else at the time I think |
| 4 | Many books which my more ardent academic colleagues ( and I too at the time ) might have cheerfully consigned to the dustbin have been saved by the splendid professional retentiveness of librarians . |
| 5 | We will then contact you again about the time and place . |
| 6 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 7 | No one however at the time questioned why it was necessary to do that . |
| 8 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 9 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 10 | ‘ I watched him much of the time , Inspector , ’ said Auguste , an anxious sheepdog watching Alfred 's eyes glaze over . |
| 11 | A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(1) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the total liability of the institution to him immediately before the time when it becomes insolvent , limited to a maximum of £20,000 , in respect of the principal amounts of and accrued interest on sterling deposits made with United Kingdom offices of the institution . |
| 13 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 14 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 15 | In much the same way , nearly all creature comforts must be sacrificed for performance — a condition which is worth it most of the time , but very occasionally not . |
| 16 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |
| 17 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 18 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
| 19 | We all know the great fiction that the Lab is independent of the police and I 'm happy to go along with it most of the time . |
| 20 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |
| 21 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
| 22 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 23 | Jack had it away at the time . |
| 24 | Whether you are experiencing physical pain , mental anguish or emotional distress , you will feel it deeply at the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 26 | He was engaged in a new round of organizing the Company 's war effort and parrying political threats to it virtually until the time of his death . |
| 27 | The working principle of Balcon 's life was that a ‘ film producer is only as good as the sum total of the colleagues with whom he works ’ , and he understood better than anyone else at the time how to turn the studio into a source of creative energy . |
| 28 | Because we did n't know where in the brain any changes might occur , or very much about chick brain anatomy ( nor , it should be said , did anyone else at the time ) , we divided the forebrain arbitrarily into two regions which we called simply ‘ roof ’ and ‘ base ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I should think that just about everyone was having a go at everyone else by the time it ended . |
| 30 | When we are insecure about our personal power , ill at ease with our individuality and allowing others to define us much of the time , we may rely heavily on other sources of power . |