Example sentences of "so [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection .
2 Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh .
3 But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time .
4 Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’
5 money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money !
6 She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time .
7 And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now .
8 ‘ Seeing as you 're on your own for so much of the time . ’
9 Just as it was difficult to be alone so much of the time with such an attractive young woman , despite the size of the ship and our separate cabins .
10 She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives .
11 He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together .
12 recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it !
13 The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out .
14 This was part of Fender 's problem , of course , and the 30″ scale length strings were so unusual at the time as to cause major headaches in manufacture .
15 Past injustices began to smart all over again , and she felt annoyed with herself for being so self-centred at a time when the family firm appeared to be teetering towards bankruptcy .
16 ‘ How can you be so sure of the time ? ’
17 The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time .
18 quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful .
19 They are more illuminating than compelling ; they show the operatic paraphrase in the hands of one of its most experienced practitioners , using as their basis music that will often have been more familiar to the listeners of its day than they now are to us ( there are some obvious exceptions on this CD ) ; and one can see why they were so successful at the time , even if they now seem slightly shallow set alongside the giants that selective history has chosen to remember .
20 and you seemed ever so big at the time !
21 Or had all his compliments and charm , so convincing at the time , been just a charade to get him what he wanted ?
22 A marriage contracted by a person so insane at the time as not to appreciate the nature of the obligations of the married state may be set aside at the suit of either party .
23 But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things .
24 So most of the time I 'm an exile .
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