Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , that 's the end of that then , so let's move on to the projected sales reports I asked for last time . |
| 2 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
| 3 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 4 | I happened at that time to be a Council member , and I was therefore able to point out that Bondi 's listing of observational errors were all taken from well-attested literature . |
| 5 | Er an so there can be profound differences in er if you think of a subject I touched upon last time , a very er contentious issue in American politics , the abortion issue , erm before the Supreme Court dealt with the matter in the nineteen seventies , every state in America had a different law on abortion . |
| 6 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 7 | Catherine Turnbull , Magdalene Avenue , Carrville , Durham : I worked at that time on public transport , Durham and district . |
| 8 | I worked at one time for a man who was incredibly able at doing his job , apparently effortlessly . |
| 9 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 10 | The last thing I needed at that time was pity . |
| 11 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
| 12 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 13 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |
| 14 | I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’ |
| 15 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 16 | I thought at half time I had got it exactly right . |
| 17 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 18 | ‘ Although I do not speak English as well as I should , I did at one time know England well . |
| 19 | I did at one time I know I never I do n't I never touch a thing there and I thought and he would you mind opening your carrier and I 've got sanitary towels in there |
| 20 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
| 21 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 22 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 23 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 24 | I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station . |
| 25 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 26 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 27 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 28 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 29 | ‘ It was a very important game , because one of the top assessors was there , but if I continued after half time , I could have done myself harm physically . |
| 30 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |