Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 2 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 3 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 4 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time . |
| 6 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 7 | There was something between them at the time . ’ |
| 8 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 9 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 10 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 11 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 12 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 13 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 14 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 15 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 16 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 17 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 18 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 19 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 20 | However , since fourteen topics were listed , even fairly full courses must have paid quite limited attention to any one topic , in order to cover all of them in the time available . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 22 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 23 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 24 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 25 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 26 | Without her being conscious of it at the time , her struggle for independence rotated around the figure of Hansel . |
| 27 | One wheel would n't retract , although he was n't aware of it at the time , and the next thing he knew he was near the ground . |
| 28 | It can be served on the person undertaking the activity , or on a person in control of it at the time the notice was served . |
| 29 | Anyway , no one thought anything of it at the time . " |
| 30 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |