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 . |