Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the time and " in BNC.
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1 | Well I can , if he lets me have his space we do n't have to worry too much about the time and go about er just after nine or something . |
2 | He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win . |
3 | He tries to play his best all of the time and plays to win . |
4 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
5 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
6 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
7 | Geoclock UK is a shareware program that shows a coloured map of the earth together with the time and date ( which is based on the time on your PC 's clock ) . |
8 | ‘ For purely practical reasons we do not permit debates in either House to be cited : it would add greatly to the time and expense involved in preparing cases involving the construction of a statute if counsel were expected to read all the debates in Hansard , and it would often be impracticable for counsel to get access to at least the older reports of debates in Select Committees of the House of Commons ; moreover , in a very large proportion of cases such a search , even if practicable , would throw no light on the question before the court . |
9 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
10 | A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds . |
11 | Unfortunately , their conception of American culture woefully behind the times and Cameron Smith , a KGB man with a more up-to-date approach , convinces his superiors to allow him to give the place a more modern look by duping a couple of real American experts to act as advisors . |
12 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
13 | ‘ That is what Martin says ; he was some distance away at the time and was n't able to see who it was . ’ |
14 | Then suddenly , when Manson was in the headlines , as popular shows do , they said , we 've got ta keep up with the times and Hawaii Five-O went super psychedelic . |
15 | This chapter investigates how that world appeared to the players and the lookers on , both at the time and afterwards . |
16 | Something was happening in Britain that allowed the period to be plausibly described , both at the time and later , as permissive . |
17 | Explanations both at the time and later have tended to point to assumptions about the lower needs of women , irrespective of the work they were doing . |
18 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
19 | The structure of Liberal argument , both at the time and as it has come down to us in modern land law texts , is thus built upon two suppositions . |
20 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
21 | Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness . |
22 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
23 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
24 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
25 | — not an easy task but well worth the time and effort . |
26 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
27 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
28 | I could n't explain it very well at the time and I still ca n't . |
29 | That said it was going very strongly at the time and there was much speculation amongst linesiders as to how No 7819 Hinton Manor would tackle the 1 in 52 climb to Talerddig summit . |
30 | ‘ He gave in too easily , at the last ; too graciously after the time and prestige he has wasted here . |