Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 2 | Chairman er in his remarks a bit earlier on Professor said that he did not think it was appropriate to give executive power to the director of education I wrote your words down at the time he did not think it appropriate to give executive power to the director of education and he said , despite Mr 's clarification you want to move a bit nearer if you 're going to be his minder Mr that in fact he did n't |
| 3 | Er minding motors outside the Arms and the Bridge Hotel every night , maybe only get sixpence or sevenpence cos there was n't that many cars about at the time . |
| 4 | I remember thinking that use of rhyming slang was going to help clear matters up in no time . |
| 5 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 6 | Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time . |
| 7 | The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered . |
| 8 | And since an expensive loaf caused havoc in St Jude 's and trouble in everybody 's weaving sheds , with demands for higher wages keeping profits down at a time when trade was far from good — when it would probably never rise again to the level of those early , heady days when the machines first came in — then Ben Braithwaite and his dinner guests had reason for their anxiety . |
| 9 | The guitars also had some of the thinnest necks , the lowest , fastest frets and the best vibratos around at the time . |
| 10 | He despised homosexuals , and although there were plenty of other sexually depraved aristocrats around at the time , he was unfortunate enough to have married into a family ( the Montreuils ) who had strong court connections , and it was they who made sure that he was jailed , partly to get him off their backs ( so to Speak ) and partly as an example to others . |
| 11 | Since 15 million years is a very short period in terms of evolution , we have to conclude that there were some big whales around at the time of the catastrophe . |
| 12 | In fact I pointed that out to the grave-diggers , but they were already 4ft 6ins down at the time . |
| 13 | David had a couple of records out at the time and he sang all his songs in the show that we did . |
| 14 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 15 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |
| 16 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 17 | Due to the statutory novation it is normal practice for the vendor to indemnify the purchaser against all liabilities concerning the employees up to the time of completion . |