Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without her I would n't be here , ’ she admitted at the time . |
| 2 | The Law Lords found that she should have been fully informed by the bank that she was risking her whole house by guaranteeing a loan to her husband 's business , not the limited amount she believed at the time . |
| 3 | She claimed at the time that colleagues had lied in a bid to get her fired because she was unpopular . |
| 4 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 5 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 6 | He came in coldness , as she thought at the time , and left in coldness , to go to his grave . |
| 7 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 8 | She thought at the time : This is a vision . |
| 9 | For the next half-hour , while everyone filtered back into the big hall , while the musicians struck up and people began to dance , she counted off the time until the bride and groom were scheduled to leave — and when she could leave herself . |
| 10 | I did n't understand what she meant at the time , I just thought she was mad ! ’ |
| 11 | I have seen photographs of her ( looking it must be admitted not much younger than she did at the time in which this story is set ) , across which she has signed herself ‘ Mademoiselle ’ , and sometimes ‘ Miss ’ . |
| 12 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 13 | ‘ These reports are a load of rubbish , ’ she said at the time . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked him why and he said because he could not talk or swallow , ’ she said at the time . |
| 15 | SHE said at the time : ‘ I know this will not happen again because of the shame it has brought on his family . ’ |
| 16 | She said at the time ‘ no-one has given the BBC a mandate to promote their causes . |
| 17 | Well as I say I went out and erm I thought , well Jill phoned and she said at the time my mum had got a boy that was sleeping rough down the sandpits . |
| 18 | evening so erm she said by the time she 's gone all you know , all day she 's had enough so she 's not stopping now . |
| 19 | She longed for the time I 've just got two in my gardeners . |
| 20 | made a Lady , or made I mean she was given that title , or actually I 'm dead against the fact it was her husband who was given the title , erm but to abstract away from that at the moment , somebody who 's been in public service all their lives and who 's devoted much of their life to the cause of the people , I mean I realize that an awful lot of people would think that Margaret Thatcher has n't done that , but let's say that , for the sake of the argument , that at least that 's what she intended for the time being |