Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
2 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Now you were standing over the road for five minutes unfortunately , but I hope during that time some of you used your eyes . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I remember the books which I read in that time with a great love . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
9 | ‘ I believe at that time my wife Christina privately thought I was mad . |
10 | Catherine Turnbull , Magdalene Avenue , Carrville , Durham : I worked at that time on public transport , Durham and district . |
11 | 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 — . ’ |
12 | The last thing I needed at that time was pity . |
13 | 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 . ’ |
14 | 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 . |
15 | So I go at any time late at night . |
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 | I think at that time you had to pay for it , but you could go and have ten minutes , sommat like that , and a cup of tea . |
19 | Th we th , I think at that time it was just the done thing , you hand out tranquillizers , erm but I found it a , a really bad experience |
20 | I think at that time there were seven regional offices |
21 | I always think of buttercups when I think of this time , for the fever hospital was at the end of a lane with meadows on either side , and these fields were bright with buttercups . |
22 | I think by this time they must be dreading the thought of another signal from the Ariadne . |
23 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
24 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
25 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
28 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | I had by this time met the latter . |