Example sentences of "you [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 2 | ‘ When I saw you for the first time , I thought for a moment you were Sybil — come back to plague me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 5 | The sooner I 've seen your grandmother , the sooner I can say goodbye to you for the last time . |
| 6 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 7 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |
| 8 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 10 | Physical activity and natural light Light exercise and brisk walks taken at your accustomed time by the new local time will help to adjust you to the new time zone and to make you feel ready for sleep at bedtime . |
| 11 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 12 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 13 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 14 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 15 | Could you at the same time treat the biblical texts as objects of critical scientific study and as the medium of a message from God ? |
| 16 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 17 | Now this er of course was railway waggons and er when you started work you was put with a skilled man and i er it was his job to repair the waggons and teach you at the same time . |
| 18 | This will give you an auditory memory of what the language is supposed to sound like , while you at the same time keep your mind on the meaning of the sentences . |
| 19 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 20 | Now if on the same basis , you at the same time reduce the amount that the county 's taking in , that exacerbates that particular group . |
| 21 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 22 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |