Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I , and I mean it 'll be Terry and I available at the time cos I |
| 2 | It seemed to me obvious at the time that to be a child was safer and easier than to be adult and that , specifically , to be a girl was safer and easier than to be a woman . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you sure of the time , Father ? ’ |
| 4 | Were you aware at the time that it was a small house ? |
| 5 | He 's bitching at me all of the time , he 's complaining , and he 's apt to be yelling at me , too . |
| 6 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 7 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 8 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 9 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 10 | And were they faulty at the time that you the shop sold then to you ? |
| 11 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 12 | How can the poor woman explain that , probably like the majority of wives , she loved him most of the time , when he did n't snore in her ear all night or shout at the kids or keep her short of Bingo money . " |
| 13 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 14 | I hope to get it right by the time the Olympics come round , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I thought it odd at the time that he should feel so at home there . ’ |
| 16 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 17 | ‘ Great Expectations ’ is also a very humorous book with many little funny episodes throughout it such as the time when Joe offers comfort to Pip at the dinner table by giving him gravy |
| 18 | Thus an order of the court that a former council house or New Town Development House be transferred to one party of the marriage will not necessitate at the time of the transfer repayment of the discount or any part of it allowable at the time of purchase . |
| 19 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 20 | As far as I can tell , Guitarist has always welcomed valid criticism and suggestions for changes or new ideas , but that does n't mean that they have to follow all of it all of the time . |
| 21 | Much of the general comment has been that quality improvement is just common sense and that we have been doing it all of the time anyway . |
| 22 | We 'll have eaten it all by the time you get in here . |
| 23 | Never mind , we 'll have it clean by the time the pie 's ready . ’ |
| 24 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 25 | Just saying br , just saying briefly er Mr I , I had something I do find it most of the time we do find it very instructive and certainly the strength of the economic development strategy is about the partnership and all those partners contributing their particular field of interest and that 's I think is . |
| 26 | I 'll just stand in front of it most of the time . |
| 27 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 28 | When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother , usually in the Empress 's study , and during the periods of residence at Compiégne , Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud , he was with them most of the time . |
| 29 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 30 | She felt comfortable in casual clothes and wore them most of the time , but she found herself wishing that , just for once , she had put on something rather more dressy . |