Example sentences of "[adj] time [v-ing] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet economist Grigory Yavlinsky , revived the Shatalin plan for a more rapid transition to a market economy ( this time proposing that it should be backed by Western aid of Marshall Plan proportions ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Butters has placed obstacles in our path all the way while at the same time stating that he wants us to stay at Belle Vue . |
| 3 | When she came back from Confession , uncomforted , she found her cell mate kicking the doctor who was trying to feed her , and at the same time yelling that he should take his hat off in the presence of a lady . |
| 4 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 5 | David was in a state at that time saying that he had signed these things years ago and wanted to get out . |