Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | I feel as if I 'm in a time war , I really do . |
2 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
3 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
4 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
5 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
6 | Apparently even if I was within the time limit of twenty-eight weeks ' pregnancy — which of course I 'm not — I could n't possibly stand an eight-hour flight ; I 've got a touch of toxaemia — ’ |
7 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |
8 | Er well I was in the time office in the first place , the men used to er cl check in , they used to bring the checks you see ? brass checks , numbered . |
9 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
10 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
11 | ‘ the defendant owed no duty of care to the infant plaintiff she being at the time of the collision en ventre sa mère , not an existing person and merely part of her mother . |
12 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
13 | For three quarters of the race she was within the time for for another British mark , but as she explained afterwards : ‘ Two hard 50-metres just before meant I was lacking at the end . ’ |
14 | We 'll have to see what 's , where we are at the time . |
15 | Although in 1981 a question was asked about usual residence , UK censuses are de facto , i.e. individuals are enumerated on the basis of where they are at the time of the census ( This avoids the need to define the distinction between temporary and permanent residence ) . |
16 | Holywood could yet clinch the single Section Two promotion spot but they seem intent on staying where they are for the time being . |
17 | The issues raised by these comments are as relevant today as they were at the time . |
18 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
19 | The sharpest criticisms of this approach have been made — as they were at the time — from extreme left-wing but non-Stalinist positions . |
20 | Erm er they formed this committee and erm it was in Switzerland er where they were at the time . |
21 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
22 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
23 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
24 | I reckon it were about the time of the Great War . |
25 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
26 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
27 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
28 | It 's by the time I could get my gloves on . |
29 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
30 | It 's like the time when you were in hospital . |