Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] time of " in BNC.
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1 | Accused in its time of being a scandalous affront to bourgeois morality , La Ronde in fact pinpoints its hypocrisy most acutely and in retrospect reveals its author as ( among other things ) a perceptively premature feminist . |
2 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
3 | The past two centuries have seen the gradual evolution of separate educational establishments catering from their time of inception for identifiable disabilities and categories of handicap ( Warnock Report 1978 ) . |
4 | Obviously there 's some depending when they , depending on what time of the year you will get some of the savings . |
5 | How much I used really depended on what time of the month it was , on when I got paid , like . |
6 | And beside that again , another box full of erm well partly full depended on what time of the week it was . |
7 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
8 | You see I think it 's the time , I think you 've got to think about what time of day as well , have n't you ? |
9 | I think at your time of life you should . |
10 | If I return to the matter of improving liaison is it possible that I might be provided with a list of the names of the various staff that serve the Branch and also the names of the Committee members- and this updated at whatever time of year the membership changes . |
11 | The non-church-goers in the community proved hard to win , and those who had lapsed from church attendance some twenty years previously saw no need to reconsider at their time of life . |