Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georgina was most upset at the time . |
| 2 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 3 | Lisa is also incredibly popular at a time when the tide of affection for Diana is turning . |
| 4 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 5 | Sales volumes in May were up on a year ago for the fifth month in a row but they remained well below normal for the time of year , he said . |
| 6 | Motor traders reported a small fall in sales in the year to May following five months of growth , but business remained below normal for the time of year . |
| 7 | Shop sales grew again in May , but the upturn was relatively modest with sales still well below normal for the time of year . |
| 8 | ‘ It was like a comedy , ’ says Banderas , who spoke only Spanish at the time . |
| 9 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 10 | Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh . |
| 11 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 12 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 13 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
| 14 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 15 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 16 | This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture . |
| 17 | She was extremely ill at the time . |
| 18 | I have proposed that , on the reasonable assumption that resources remained more or less constant for the time in question , the price exacted for ( phyletically ) growing larger was to become rarer , thereby increasing the probability of extinction ( Hallam , 1975 ) . |
| 19 | Past injustices began to smart all over again , and she felt annoyed with herself for being so self-centred at a time when the family firm appeared to be teetering towards bankruptcy . |
| 20 | She recovered — though the royal nursery in Linlithgow can hardly have been a peaceful place , with its occupant combining convalescence with the more normal infant problem of teething ; but she was entirely well by the time Sadler saw her again , in early August . |
| 21 | ‘ How can you be so sure of the time ? ’ |
| 22 | It was exceedingly late by the time he got back to the mansion block . |
| 23 | Vermuyden constructed the first Bedford River , twenty-one miles long , to drain the so-called Bedford Level , and it was highly effective for a time , but the one factor the engineer failed to foresee was that the dried-out land would shrink ( see Holme Fen ) , and soon the level of the canal was above that of the surrounding land . |
| 24 | It was all terribly embarrassing at the time — not the defeat as much as the abject humiliation when the result was read out at assembly on the Monday morning … |
| 25 | This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas . |
| 26 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 27 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 28 | They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember . |
| 29 | and you seemed ever so big at the time ! |
| 30 | For stepping rates where the phase is only excited for a time similar to the winding time constant , however , the wave form [ Fig.5 .2(b) ] is considerably distorted by the nearly exponential rise and decay of the phase current . |