Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick . |
| 2 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 3 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 4 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 5 | The Queen says : ‘ The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 6 | The prayers , understanding and sympathy given to us by so many of you in good times and bad have lent us great support and encouragement . |
| 7 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 8 | I mean what we 've heard that in fact erm they had met in prison , but was that known to you at that time or simply that they were known to each other and that had a record ? |
| 9 | All of us at John Fowler Holidays will be pleased to see you at any time and hope to have the pleasure of giving you a good holiday . |
| 10 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 11 | I had intended to emerge while Mr Cardinal was still a reasonable distance away , so that he would see me in good time and suppose I was on my way to the summerhouse , or perhaps to the gardener 's lodge . |
| 12 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 14 | I think the Algerians have been angry with him for some time and are prepared to let Polisario have a free hand . ’ |
| 15 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 16 | Oh yeah , I mean I had a horrible time with him for some time and it just , just |
| 17 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 18 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 19 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 20 | Having decided how long the intervention is to last , ask the parents to run it for that time and then immediately return to the baseline condition . |
| 21 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 22 | I watched it for some time but there 's nobody about . |
| 23 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 24 | Also , blotting paper is fairly costly to buy so it is much more economical to use it for pressing time and time again . |
| 25 | Indeed , it has actually been an idea of mine for some time that the retaining of unnecessary numbers simply for tradition 's sake — resulting in employees having an unhealthy amount of time on their hands — has been an important factor in the sharp decline in professional standards . |
| 26 | Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined . |
| 27 | Charlotte was counting the seconds until he should extricate himself , and he did it in less time than she had expected , and without even the pretence of sitting down with her . |
| 28 | She 's only limping on it at certain times cos she came rushing into my bedroom last night and you were n't limping then ! |
| 29 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 30 | And we were not too keen on it at that time but had been all right . |