Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 2 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 3 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 4 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 5 | ‘ Most days , poor man , an ’ talk about the time he was a boy . |
| 6 | I wish I had a pound for every time I have denied holding a meeting with the T & g . |
| 7 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 8 | A , but what I 'm sa , wha the point you were making Adrian , is tha , is is that 's what you 've got ta keep in mind about every time you walk into a business or phone up a business , that it does matter that it 's in , your , that 's not what we want cos I 'm telling you , you know , do n't you know , the security guys photographing , you know , lampposts and stuff like that . |
| 9 | ‘ They drive you mad , ’ I said , thinking of the time I was about to murder my husband with the pressure-cooker , ‘ did he do exercises in bed ? ’ |
| 10 | Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car . |
| 11 | A good deal of the time he or she can get it the first time . |
| 12 | Since friars were the pre-eminent preachers of the time they were particularly enlisted to explain , in public and private sermons , the legitimacy of the king 's claim on the French crown and to stress his almost superhuman efforts to avoid conflict ; preachers were to elaborate on French treachery , exposing their ‘ derogatory lies ’ . |
| 13 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 14 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 15 | The life of the camp consumed their married life , oppressed her from her hour of waking until the time she fell asleep . |
| 16 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 17 | Ranulf thought of the Lady Agnes and moaned ; she had proved a fiery lover from the time he had first flung her on her back and lifted her lace-trimmed skirts . |
| 18 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 19 | At the time of utterance , four months before the time I am writing of , the beneficent lady speaks of the future , shall have her chance . |
| 20 | They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine . |
| 21 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 22 | ‘ She thinks it was some distance outside Harpenden from the time it took to get there , but she 's very disorientated . |
| 23 | In fact , it can offer very considerable protection — against cancellation and losses from the time you leave home to your return . |
| 24 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | As regards the numbering of their years , the Jews used the same era as the Seleucids of Syria from the time they came under their rule , in the second century BC , until the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD . |
| 26 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 27 | Most men take less than six minutes from the time of entry to the time they ejaculate . |
| 28 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 29 | In order to answer this last question it is necessary to look briefly at the type of anthropological work available to Marx and Engels at the time they were writing . |
| 30 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |