Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 2 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 3 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 4 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 5 | But if you wanted a single bed moving , then the cheapest way would be just to have one man , he comes we charge you for the time we take , with a minimum of an hour 's charge . |
| 6 | Okay , Carol , thank you for the time you 've given to us to see it . |
| 7 | She rang erm a le , did she tell so , did , mum tell you about the time she had erm some calls about two in the morning ? |
| 8 | Did I ever tell you about the time I was thrown into a lake up in the — ’ |
| 9 | do n't always tell you at the time they just say |
| 10 | You have my sincere hope and prayers for a safe delivery out of your troubles , and which I fear not will be granted to you , and if I am not with you at the time you will have something to present to me when I do . ’ |
| 11 | Phone if you want me to saddle up the mare and I 'll have her ready for you by the time you get down here . ’ |
| 12 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 13 | Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point . |
| 14 | Of course you w of course you would Of course you would and it may be that what you will have to say is , Well look , erm I gave you the four per cent on the on the precision types and that that really has to stay , but by the time we by the time we 've done all the analysis on the er on the popular metrics , it will work out that it is is is only two per cent . |
| 15 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 16 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 17 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 18 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 19 | He recalled his telling him about the time he went into a pub when a man suggested having sex with him and pulled down his trousers in front of the assembled company . |
| 20 | He never contacted her during the times they were apart , so perhaps he was able to divorce his professional life from his sex life , compartmentalising them in a way she could n't . |
| 21 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 22 | It reminded her of the time she had slept here , and woken to find him beside her with his arm around her in his beautifully furnished bedroom . |
| 23 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 24 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 25 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 26 | The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor . |
| 27 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 28 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |
| 29 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 30 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |