Example sentences of "[prep] the time [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | During the time since it was reviewed ( three years to the very month ) it has n't aged at all . |
2 | Just from racing so long I know what it 's going to do most of the time so I can adjust the pressure on the handlebars and know how hard I can drive it into the pavement . |
3 | I was a mature student of the time so I would be pleased to hear from those graduating prior to 1985 . |
4 | That was when the little woman with the pencil in her hair came in and said that was the end of the time unless we wanted to extend it . |
5 | Most of the time since we arrived back in England my mind has been full of thoughts about Fiona . |
6 | Of course , she gets away with it most of the time because she 's so pretty . |
7 | Talk of Sebastian , but not the financial problem he had left Leith with , occupied the remainder of the time until they had finished their meal . |
8 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
9 | They could choose when to study what and play the rest of the time if they chose . |
10 | The mail will come through to the secretary , and most of the time if it is n't a tape and is just a letter , the A&R person 's morning mail will include your gig information . |
11 | Ruth found herself in his arms , her face against his broad chest — as if she were a little girl again , in the time before she 'd known he was crazy . |
12 | In the time since she had moved downstairs , and Alison had moved in upstairs , she had meditated much , almost as a detached spectator , upon the comparative stability of her incompatible moods , whereby she was , as it were , becalmed . |
13 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
14 | Yeah well what happens if you just get in at the end of your or a at the time before they change the band , the colours ? |
15 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
16 | I was a bit flustered at the time so I do n't really know what he said . |
17 | I was in the control area with Mala at the time so I had to suffer through it . |
18 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
19 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
20 | And I , and I mean it 'll be Terry and I available at the time cos I |
21 | It preceded the Beecham by some five years and , unless I am much mistaken , never appeared in this country at the time though it was included in an anthology RCA issued on LP ( 6/70 — nla ) . |
22 | However , Beecroft 's attempts , little noted at the time because they were mounted from Fernando Po , proved much more successful than the highly publicized expeditions that set out from England . |
23 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
24 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
25 | It was n't at the time because you had a real complex about it but |
26 | I wondered at the time because it was professional jealousy after all , I suppose . ’ |
27 | ‘ I was embarrassed at the time because it was a serious occasion but secretly I was also very flattered . |
28 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
29 | ‘ I supported the principle of the community charge at the time because I thought the principle was right . |
30 | ‘ McCabe was probably my favourite at the time because he was so intense for three or four years . |