Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 2 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |
| 3 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 4 | Primarily though it 's how you are in yourself at the time which determines whether you are going to get up the mountain and get back down . |
| 5 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 6 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
| 7 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 8 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 9 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 10 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 11 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |