Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed and upset at the time because there were other girls of my age in the dale and they could go and I could not . |
| 2 | One man who emerged from the tour with much credit was Alan Smith , the manager , who had been diplomacy personified during the political crisis and sensitive and supportive at the time of Barrington 's death . |
| 3 | He had been unemployed and depressed at the time of the theft , and had since started attending college and returned to live with his mother . |
| 4 | ‘ Tradition also means getting massacred every time the Cossacks get restless , and catching cholera and girls married and pregnant from the time they 're fifteen , and a whole bundle of medieval superstitions , and no plumbing , and women doing all the dirty work as usual . |
| 5 | I was young and foolish at the time , |
| 6 | The secrets of the period , hidden and unknowable at the time , have been revealed in the historical conclusion of 1914 . |
| 7 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 8 | The air remained unnaturally hot and humid for the time of the year , and the sun shone down again from the brightening sky . |
| 9 | Reasonableness is thus judged in the light of circumstances known and foreseeable at the time the contract was made . |
| 10 | Not knowing the area well , and conscious of the time of year , I did a survey walk with a friend . |
| 11 | Such views were both pervasive and unexceptional at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Nice and heavy for the time of year . ’ |
| 13 | However , the Court of Appeal decided in Burton v Islington Health Authority [ 1992 ] 3 WLR 617 that at common law a child en ventre sa mρere and unborn at the time of the defendant 's negligence has a cause of action for injuries caused by that negligence . |
| 14 | This remark , which struck me as silly and offensive at the time , was to be recalled later . |
| 15 | Albújar was reported to have been alone and unarmed at the time of the attack . |
| 16 | But in the twentieth century , and particular from the time of the depression , federal spending has increased enormously . |
| 17 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 18 | The list is comprehensive and correct at the time of publication , but additions and deletions may occur from time to time . |
| 19 | ( For convenience planners referred to D-day , or Z-day early in the war , as the day of a landing and H-hour as the time of landing . |
| 20 | The following week James Butlin reported that she had been ‘ exceedingly foul in her linen and verminous at the time of her admission ’ . |
| 21 | The team became more accepting and realistic about the time demanded by the investigation service . |