Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 2 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 4 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 5 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 6 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 7 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 8 | Their new single , Family , includes all these elements and could be the one that breaks them into the big time . |
| 9 | It says that at least some of the characteristics of this hyper-individualist people can not be explained by what has happened to them in the Ottoman time and since , because these characteristics predate the Ottomans . |
| 10 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 11 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 12 | And of course , Bullitt had directly observed the man and interacted with him during the critical time at , at the Versailles conference . |
| 13 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 14 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 15 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 16 | catch him at the right time . |
| 17 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it . |
| 19 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 20 | Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer . |
| 21 | To do it smoothly , to do it in the right time , you have to be physically very fit . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , well , some make it to the big time , others do n't , ’ Melissa remarked smugly . |
| 23 | Adam and Harriet Hunt are hoping to make it to the big time . |
| 24 | She was on about general conversation , you should have it on the whole time . |
| 25 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 26 | So we need to get the word of God , go out with it at the right time and leave it with people . |
| 27 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 28 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 29 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |
| 30 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |