Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 2 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 3 | It is a more complex tension between the time it takes for any educational system to assimilate innovation , and the pressing need of computer manufacturers and software publishers to market new products . |
| 4 | ‘ Most days , poor man , an ’ talk about the time he was a boy . |
| 5 | I wish I had a pound for every time I have denied holding a meeting with the T & g . |
| 6 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 7 | A , but what I 'm sa , wha the point you were making Adrian , is tha , is is that 's what you 've got ta keep in mind about every time you walk into a business or phone up a business , that it does matter that it 's in , your , that 's not what we want cos I 'm telling you , you know , do n't you know , the security guys photographing , you know , lampposts and stuff like that . |
| 8 | ‘ They drive you mad , ’ I said , thinking of the time I was about to murder my husband with the pressure-cooker , ‘ did he do exercises in bed ? ’ |
| 9 | Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car . |
| 10 | A good deal of the time he or she can get it the first time . |
| 11 | Of course , it is not uncommon for alterations to be made to a side from the time it is announced until the team actually takes the field . |
| 12 | The life of the camp consumed their married life , oppressed her from her hour of waking until the time she fell asleep . |
| 13 | The life span of a human skin cell from the time it is born until the time it is shed is just a few weeks . |
| 14 | Ranulf thought of the Lady Agnes and moaned ; she had proved a fiery lover from the time he had first flung her on her back and lifted her lace-trimmed skirts . |
| 15 | She had been beaten into submission from the time she was a baby . |
| 16 | Most men take less than six minutes from the time of entry to the time they ejaculate . |
| 17 | Provided one remembered that a poll was simply a snapshot of voting intention at the time it was taken and that national polls should have a sample of at least 1,000 , one would not go far wrong . |
| 18 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |
| 19 | To tell the truth , I did n't have a steady girlfriend at the time he swanned into the Cafè des Squires and exited with Gillian . |
| 20 | As I had a twelfth-hand Hillman Imp at the time I drove him down to his place in South London . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it remains to be varified whether villus height is relevant to the previous dietary history — that is , nitrogen supply quality — and whether it depends on body weight at the time it is measured . |
| 22 | Now , he does n't say anything about penis envy in , in putting that forward and I do n't know whether penis envy was in his mind at the time he wrote those words and even if I asked him today , he probably would n't admit it . |
| 23 | Other critical statements made about a plaintiff are irrelevant unless they shed light on the defendant 's state of mind at the time he wrote the article which gave rise to the action . |
| 24 | One most destructive mode by which vast numbers are destroyed is that of chasing the birds in a boat at the time they shed their primary quill-feathers , when being unable to fly they are soon rowed down and captured ; this practice , which is to be much regretted , is usually resorted to for the sake of the beautiful down with which the breasts are clothed , but not unfrequently is mere wantonness . |
| 25 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 26 | Celsus senior may have been very advanced to arrive at this conception at the time he did . |
| 27 | If completion accounts are required , it is common practice to require the relevant accountants to agree the apportionment at the time they agree the completion statement as the price will not be finalised at the time of contract . |
| 28 | There is also information on where the local topos/guides can be bought ( that is assuming they are still in stock by the time you get there ) . |
| 29 | Hankin promised : ‘ I will have eight or nine youngsters in the side by the time we play Exeter in our final match . |
| 30 | It was like an old dishcloth by the time I was finished . |