Example sentences of "we at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 2 | ‘ It was lovely that Cuan was thinking of us at that time , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 3 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 4 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 5 | Many of us at that time welcomed the fact that the government was taking stock of public opinion , and was t making the effort to review the , the , the N H S. |
| 6 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 7 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 8 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 9 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 10 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 11 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 12 | But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot ! |
| 13 | ( Boy would never , of course , have used the word us at this time . |
| 14 | All of us at this time began to understand what was meant by the scripture : ‘ Zeal for your house consumes me . ’ |
| 15 | So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house . |
| 16 | The back is a delicate instrument , and so finely tuned that nearly everyone of us at some time has experienced some sort of back problem . |
| 17 | British Red Cross director-general Mike Whitlam said : ‘ We hope she will be able to travel with us at some time . ’ |
| 18 | er and they might be coming up to stop with us at some time over Easter |
| 19 | But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood . |
| 20 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 21 | And if you ever have a query , you can call us at any time , 24 hours a day , 7 days a week . |
| 22 | Anyone is free to advertise with us at any time , Gay Times included . |
| 23 | However , we reserve the right for repayment to be made on demand by us at any time . |
| 24 | You shall not use any of the foregoing except in connection with our orders , and you shall maintain the same in good condition and return them to us at any time on demand or otherwise automatically on completion of this order . |