Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time !
2 The second sentence constitutes part of the setting along with the time elements established in the first sentence .
3 Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't
4 Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches .
5 Practically nobody had a car in at the time .
6 I 'll make my mind up at the time . ’
7 Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time .
8 Although it was a large fire , she had never known it have more than one bar on at a time .
9 Although most biographers ( encouraged by Darwin 's own recollections ) have played down the Edinburgh episode , the most recent studies have noted that he developed an interest in invertebrate zoology here that was to form a mainstay of his scientific work through into the time of the Beagle voyage .
10 I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time .
11 The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby .
12 The most common reason for early fits is a shortage of oxygen round about the time of birth , but that does n't apply in your case , as David breathed right away .
13 Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time .
14 This is fairer as it allows for the fact that fewer overs remain in which the chasing team can attack , but does not set a rate out of proportion with the course of the match up to the time of the stoppage .
15 I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being .
16 The report , commissioned by the Archbishop of Lyon , Cardinal Albert Decourtray shortly after Touvier 's arrest in May 1989 at a monastery in Nice [ see pp. 37019 ; 37899 ] , said that while the church as a body was not involved in assisting Touvier , senior churchmen had provided material support and the Catholic charity , Secours Catholique , had paid him a monthly stipend up to the time of his arrest .
17 At Wickham 's prompting he painstakingly recalled everything that had happened in the pub that evening up to the time he missed the knife , and recited a list of names of customers who had been there .
18 The joke around at the time was that it would be filmed with a hand-held camera .
19 Such had been the history of this camp up to the time I arrived there .
20 The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered .
21 Me brother was deputy in at the time erm
22 The first source of ‘ goodness ’ is to be found in the millions of years of evolution up to the time of the ‘ Dawn of Civilisation ’ .
23 Did they have problems with keeping the water out during the time they were storing the
24 Had n't Naylor Massingham been the only other person around at the time of that incident ?
25 And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety .
26 I have n't taken more than a week off at a time and I need some rest . ’
27 The Poles had maintained a very efficient educational system under a special national commission up to the time of the partition .
28 The Rhine was the eastern boundary of the Carolingian Franks up to the time of Charlemagne .
29 There was nobody else 's staff around at the time .
30 In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time .
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