Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ . |
| 2 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 3 | But that 's during my time that I remember . |
| 4 | ‘ Not very often ; my ukulele takes up most of my time as you know . ’ |
| 5 | But I was dreading the French paper to which I had only given the dregs of my time as I had had so much else on my plate . |
| 6 | erm I suppose that would mean if they felt they were taking up so much of their time that they could n't do what they considered to be their job properly , and if they felt that I think the parents were persisting and insisting that their own children got more attention than the school could really afford to give them if they were going to be fair to everyone . |
| 7 | The showmen were men of their time and they knew how easy it was to tell stories that would be sympathetic to the common man , that would condemn all truly evil men and their agencies , and yet at the same time would do nothing other than confirm existing social values . |
| 8 | Well that was a waste of their time if they 'd have gone round there to view them , were n't it ? |
| 9 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 10 | forty percent of her time because she does it so quickly but er oh |
| 11 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |
| 12 | And finally , there 's Tony , who 's wasting a lot of his time because you have n't giving him enough targets to keep him interested and to develop his potential , and to get the best out of him . |
| 13 | Understand that this could be the worst news you could give him and make sure he gets as much of your time as you can give . |
| 14 | Give me fifteen minutes of your time and you 'll hire me . |
| 15 | Colleagues , can I now take , er , a moment of your time and it gives me very great pleasure to call upon the President to deliver his address to congress . |
| 16 | Not in my time but they used to be all branched off , there used to be a lot of oysters . |
| 17 | Never in my time but I 've heard it spoken about here . |
| 18 | Well I 've had them in my time as you know . |
| 19 | I 've seen two in my time and I think he 's suffered a stroke . ’ |
| 20 | He reckoned that he had built so many locomotives in his time that it was no longer necessary to undertake normal design work . |
| 21 | If you take photographs as a hobby , you are likely to have produced at least one quality snap in your time and it might just be that a magazine would find it useful . |
| 22 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |