Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft muslin cloth for the odd time I do n't want the work to get too hot . |
| 2 | No music and the bar 's only open for the minimum time he can get away with . |
| 3 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 4 | Now , for the final time we 're heading way out west with the man who 's given a whole new meaning to the term ‘ cowboy ’ — John Millar of the Daily Record . |
| 5 | Oh , poor Travis , Leith thought , her sympathies going out to him for the terrible time he was having . |
| 6 | A great girl and we were very happy for the short time we had . ’ |
| 7 | I sometimes cycled to Bude Grammar School for the short time I was there . |
| 8 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 9 | The following version is useful to give children the opportunity to channel excess energy — everybody is in action for the whole time it is being played . |
| 10 | During the whole time they were there , they were not bothered by aircraft . |
| 11 | We lost one man from the ground crew during the whole time we were overseas . |
| 12 | During the whole time I was anorexic , there is only one reference in my diary to feeling cold , and that was when the school heating system failed . |
| 13 | Horatia 's supposed to have lost her memory during the whole time she was away . |
| 14 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 15 | Two of them ( the men , I mean ) became quite fond of John during the short time he was with them , and expressed much regret at his leaving , begging him to come again and to bring his gin , meaning his wife , with him . ’ |
| 16 | Here you see the Sheffield ladies , Pauline [ branch secretary ] , Diane [ sales controller ] , Joan [ service controller ] and Sue [ receptionist ] still talking about the fantastic time they had . |
| 17 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 18 | That 's about the only time I 've liked it here . ’ |
| 19 | It 's about the only time I really hate the job , you know — with accidents and so on … having to tell the relatives , and all that . ’ |
| 20 | We 've got an arrangement with the health authority about the maximum time we will take in assessing somebody for discharge from hospital . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 24 | She felt certain then that he must be thinking that if she was any sort of a journalist that she could do quite a write-up out of the considerable time she had just spent walking in his sole company . |
| 25 | And that , in spite of the short time we have known each other , would not be true … ’ |
| 26 | The electrical problem arises from the finite time it takes a signal to travel across a chip . |
| 27 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 28 | We will continue to from two three we will continue to dig the foundations in the mean time we hope the concrete the concrete will be arriving on site to complete those footings . |
| 29 | The miserable mummy was to stay above ground for many more years yet ; in the mean time it remained an object of spectacle . |
| 30 | Even in the little time she had had since yesterday ( and she had sent out at once for gossip papers . |