Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 situational humour , ie funny within the context of the situation people are in at the time so that people can relate to it through a common , shared experience
2 For the mobile unit , it must be well built and braced to allow for moving over uneven ground , if the birds are in at the time , then the extra weight on the floor will be 204 kg for the 100 bird house and 409 kg for the 200 bird house .
3 WELL , we 're back to the time of year when , hopefully , it will be warm and dry enough to get a barbecue organised .
4 This could result in a fire flaring up , causing possible injury and , especially if you are out at the time , widespread damage .
5 They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow .
6 I would pen them in a corner and the job would be over in no time .
7 All the sex would be over by the time Gina came back .
8 It would all be over by the time he got there !
9 Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups .
10 Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships .
11 I 'll leave first thing and , as he says , I 'll be back in no time .
12 But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view .
13 I 'd rather be around at the time
14 They just put me up for it and I just happened to be about at the time .
15 If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event .
16 Had he been around at the time of my capture I do n't believe I 'd have made it very far .
17 For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate .
18 If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition .
19 If you find it hard to stick to a diet , try keeping a diary for a week where you record what you 've eaten and when , how hungry you were and what sort of mood you were in at the time .
20 The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc .
21 This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time .
22 Keith and John were over by the time Paul met John .
23 I thought they , they were out by the time this book was published that er Maggie Thatcher was out , was , I mean this
24 He was smitten not especially by Sandra 's looks , but by her whole demeanour , and those who were around at the time must have thought he had understated his feelings when he said later , ‘ It was a no-big-deal act for me .
25 But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away .
26 Only one of these ten l.e.d.s is on at a time , the position changing to the following l.e.d. with each successive input pulse .
27 As for the new US system of having a laundry pick up a bucket each day — the worst is over by the time you have put the diaper in the bucket .
28 P. Dino , you , it depends who is around at the time .
29 I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that .
30 I was on at the time , I had my period .
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