Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has been said , these are essential data for the story , and some of the time they seem to be confirmed . |
| 2 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 3 | Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born . |
| 4 | The Supreme Court could find no proof that Kopp had known this at the time she made the call . |
| 5 | Well because he was half at the time it was just before I left at about nine to come down here you see . |
| 6 | But they want to be sure it is empty at the time they might need to sell or redevelop . |
| 7 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 8 | Fairfax and Lady De Marr have already had a few by the time I join them . |
| 9 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 10 | ‘ These , ’ I cried , ‘ are inhabited by horned pygmies who move in herds , and who are old by the time they are seven ! ’ |
| 11 | Isaac would have been two or three years old by the time he was weaned . |
| 12 | Libby 's jersey felt rough on her arms after the bareness of summer , they wore wellington boots , not sandals , and the black rubber glistened with damp by the time they had crossed the field , disturbing the sleeping cows . |
| 13 | I 'll be near forty by the time she 's ready for marriage , and that 's a lifetime away ; and it 's your lifetime away , too . |
| 14 | Dudley having to deal with this heaving , sticky past every time he does an interview . |
| 15 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 16 | Much of the time we are reacting with unwanted stress because we are afraid of doing damage to our own self-concept . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it is true that much of the time we spent together we were going over our lines early in the morning in the make-up room . ’ |
| 18 | We 're there for the Na-Nazi riots — but for too much of the time we 're not . |
| 19 | For much of the time they slept and when she was n't sleeping Diana frequently visited the kitchens , the domain of ‘ Swampie ’ Marsh and fellow chefs . |
| 20 | It was built in 1490 and for much of the time it was owned by the Darrel family . |
| 21 | For much of the time it took me through farmland , amidst the pleasant aroma of meadows , and often I found myself slowing the Ford to a crawl to better appreciate a stream or a valley I was passing . |
| 22 | And for much of the time it follows the Minchmoor Road , an ancient drove road which was also used by Scottish monarchs staying at Traquair House . |
| 23 | The period is 313 days , and the range from 5.4 to 10.5 , so that for much of the time it is out of binocular range . |
| 24 | Much of the time it is an unsightly mud-channel . |
| 25 | Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket ; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal . |
| 26 | For much of the time she was delirious , but there were lucid intervals , during which she was slightly comforted to understand that the nightmares that had tormented her were products of the disease and not of reality . |
| 27 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 28 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 29 | They were with Mr Mandela until 10pm , much of the time he and Mrs Sisulu simply recalling their old days together and recounting what they had done all these years . |
| 30 | Much of the time he stayed hidden in his study . |