Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the time [that] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | We Was it apparent to you at the time that the wage was low ? |
2 | You were told at the time you did , and Councillor told you at the time that th it was totally inadequate was the children 's budget , so how can you expect more money from the Government when your sense of priorities is so blatantly wrong on the money that you 're already handling . |
3 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
4 | His friends and colleagues were trying to persuade him at the time that this would not be wise — what on earth would happen to the British election campaign if the country had to go to war in the Gulf half-way through ? |
5 | It had seemed to her at the time that this was all she was to be allowed of Ace , and so it became the most precious thing in her life . |
6 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
7 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
8 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
9 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
10 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
11 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
12 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
13 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
14 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
15 | Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies . |