Example sentences of "any [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could have gotten the hostages out any damn time we wanted to [ Coleman insists ] , but nobody was willing to rock the boat with a rescue operation . |
| 2 | Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand . |
| 3 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 4 | At any given time she has been appropriately fearless and self-contained in the message she has applied . |
| 5 | A person may be resident in more than one country but at any given time he/she can only be domiciled in one . |
| 6 | They did not get many phone calls and any other time she would have rushed out into the hall to see who it was . |
| 7 | Maurin would be at the gallery any other time she wanted him . |
| 8 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 9 | At any other time she might have appreciated the beauty of the morning , a perfect , brilliant , cloudless day , golden and enticing after a refreshing overnight rain . |
| 10 | ‘ In any other time he would have been a pirate or a highwayman . ’ |
| 11 | At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him . |
| 12 | At any other time I 'd have laughed at this innocent self-betrayal ; just now it did n't seem funny , only irritating . |
| 13 | ‘ Why — because , though at any other time I could perhaps let my feelings have their head , this time , for a reason I simply was n't seeing then , I just knew that it could not be like that with you . ’ |
| 14 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |
| 15 | ‘ At any other time it would be a pleasure . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 17 | But at any other time it 's the end of your turn . |
| 18 | Any other time you can leave a message on the answerphone and someone will call you back . |