Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 32 | In all this time it has only ever had three owners . |
| 33 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 34 | Miranda sat in her room feeling thoroughly miserable , and going back over and over again in her head every single significant thing that Miles had said or done since that first time he kissed her on the Promenade . |
| 35 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 36 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 37 | Well at that particular time I was already on the council , I was doing family planning which took up an awful lot of my time . |
| 38 | Well at that particular time I could n't tell him . |
| 39 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 40 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 41 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |
| 42 | If , for example , she sometimes finds the superfluities of Godmersham amusing — ‘ At this present time I have five Tables , Eight & twenty Chairs & two fires all to myself ’ she none the less savours the ‘ luxurious sensation ’ of sitting ‘ in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room ’ . |
| 43 | But just at this particular time we 've got a lot of residents with Zimmer frames and they really just are n't steady enough without one of the care staff going across with them , which does happen . |
| 44 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 45 | But at this particular time we are here to support and assist in communication . ’ |
| 46 | At this particular time he liked to begin the unwinding process . |
| 47 | David asked if I could jive and at this particular time I always dressed as a man , which was probably another reason Calvin and I got along very well because Calvin wore velvet suits and I wore velvet suits — so that was one area we got on very well . |
| 48 | But at some future time they may decide they want to . |
| 49 | Mr. Sturge in his argument has maintained that such a lease would be valid , and that , even if the term is uncertain at its beginning when the lease takes effect , the fact that at some future time it will be rendered certain is sufficient to make it a good lease . |
| 50 | If you realize that you are especially susceptible at some particular time it is foolish to place yourself directly in temptation 's way . |
| 51 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 52 | Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show . |
| 53 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 54 | At any one time they are likely to have two hundred and fifty in various stages of recovery . |
| 55 | And so therefore at any one time we are working , I mean that 's what we do , you know we are working at one particular area . |
| 56 | In the second and third years … drama , dance and music are taught together , but with three staff timetabled ; so at any one time we split the groups up we 've got group numbers of about 20 — three staff between two forms — and they 'll say work in drama on a theme for six weeks , then move on and explore that theme in music , then move on and explore that in dance . |
| 57 | As regards offers , at any one time we would have over 1000 offers available in-store ; these change on a weekly basis and it would be almost impossible to give advance notice to all staff ; we do of course highlight them in-store to customers and many are advertised in the national press or on TV so that customers [ and potential customers ] may be attracted to shop in JS branches . |
| 58 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 59 | At any other time she might have appreciated the beauty of the morning , a perfect , brilliant , cloudless day , golden and enticing after a refreshing overnight rain . |
| 60 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |