Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put I 'm in full time education tick it pay for it she said er what you on then ? |
| 2 | I was on borrowed time . |
| 3 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 4 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 5 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 6 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 7 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 8 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 9 | I was at one time er the ph printer Not the photographer but the printer for erm a free hand out paper called the Islander . |
| 10 | Oh , I only pay dutiful visits now , ’ Rose went on , ‘ but I was at one time very frequently here . |
| 11 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 12 | In fact , I was for some time of the opinion that this huge challenge ahead of us could not be surmounted without my bringing in additional staff from outside . |
| 13 | Although I denied being ill and scorned to make the demands for attention usually employed by invalids or malingerers , there is no doubt that I was by this time making a bid for power . |
| 14 | If you 're in two time or four time which you are . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're in good time , ’ the witch-like Miss Martindale admitted in grudging tones , as she opened the door . |
| 16 | You 're in bare time for your wedding . ’ |
| 17 | If you get caught with more than seven tablets you 're in big time trouble . ’ |
| 18 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 19 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 20 | I just hope she 's in this time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 22 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 23 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 24 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 25 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 26 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 27 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 28 | She was by this time . |
| 29 | Again , sweetish , not unpleasant ; she was in that time of her youth when ripeness in any form spelt pleasure . |
| 30 | Yeah , wh when you was on short time , ooh yeah . |