Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 2 | His terms of land survey and planning are : Estate measuring and mapping 1/ per square acre , measuring land for the content only , six pence per statute acre ; for finishing any old plan of estate in the new method , six pence per statute acre , and six pence for every mile the estate lies distant from Manchester ( as it is necessary to inspect every field , as plowed , pasture , and meadow are differently distinguished , as likewise the fences , whether hedges , walls , cops , dykes , or pales , as likewise hilly ground , etc. ; levelling , dividing , etc. , according to the time and trouble ) . ’ |
| 3 | At London 's new Lanesborough Hotel , public area lighting is linked by a timer to an outdoor sensor which controls the lights according to the time or cloud cover . |
| 4 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 5 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 6 | It was then getting near the time that I could turn him out , again I put it off , frightened of what he might do . |
| 7 | Stopping people by asking for the time or change is a favourite mugging trick — especially when there is more than one attacker . |
| 8 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 9 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 10 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 11 | I want to get sorted and ticking by the time that Dizzy and his pals arrive . |
| 12 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 13 | Do you think that was an attitude to that was erm unique to nursing at the time or do you think erm that possibly girls in other walks of life had the same kind of experience of discipline and demands on them ? |
| 14 | Mr Vass said his client had lashed out , in a fight outside a pub , not realising at the time that a bottle in his hand was broken . |
| 15 | Although I did the lights for Hamlet at school , I never understood the play , thinking at the time that it was much ado about very little . |
| 16 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 17 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 18 | It was true that there were usually two of them together and he remembered thinking at the time that the other one was probably in a shop begging . |
| 19 | They stayed in the bedroom for half an hour or so , talking , looking at the things , talking : and Clara remembered thinking at the time that it was just such a honeysuckle-filtered , sunny conversational afternoon that would in years to come , whatever those years might bring , cause her the most sad and exquisite nostalgia . |
| 20 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 21 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |