Example sentences of "about the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary had begun to visit her regularly on Friday mornings — with Mr Fenton 's express approval and the Christian support of her mother — when she was about fourteen — at about the time her father had begun to use her in the Fish and Budworth had turned up to sketch his mischief . |
| 2 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |
| 3 | Others began to react badly to various chemicals at about the time they developed candidiasis . |
| 4 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not talking about the time we spent in bed . |
| 6 | ‘ At about the time we finished making The Knack , ’ said Richard Lester , ‘ I bought the book of How I Won the War , by Patrick Ryan , and started work with Charles Wood on a screenplay , with Michael in mind as the lead . |
| 7 | About the time we 're fucking get away about six quid ! |
| 8 | Would their children talk with similar nostalgia about the time their dads led ‘ the North Bank on a charge against the Chelsea ‘ Shed ’ ? ss Sport presents a problem for such youths . |
| 9 | The greatest areas of concern for tax-payers were about the Revenue 's staff 's apparent lack of authority to deal with certain problems , difficulty in getting through to the right person on the telephone , and about the time it took to resolve problems and answer queries . |
| 10 | Editor , — New patients registering with our general practice often complain about the time it takes us to get their NHS notes from the family health services authority . |
| 11 | But local people remained sceptical about the time it can take crews to reach emergencies . |
| 12 | He added that he was concerned about the time it took for the incident to be reported to the Inspectorate of Pollution and the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 13 | Complain about the time it takes for the Beano to reach me . |
| 14 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 15 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |
| 16 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 17 | She rang erm a le , did she tell so , did , mum tell you about the time she had erm some calls about two in the morning ? |
| 18 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 19 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 20 | On the other hand , there was something unbeatably creepy about the time I walked into a man 's bathroom at the very beginning of an affair and saw a bottle of ‘ scruffing lotion ’ by his basin . |
| 21 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 22 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 23 | Did I ever tell you about the time I was thrown into a lake up in the — ’ |
| 24 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 25 | Now this fellow had a very attractive girlfriend called Midge " md I got to know Midge through my predescessor , about the time I was due to leave No 7 Squadron and go to Bennett 's headquarters . |
| 26 | About the time I started me tape |
| 27 | Even an agreement about the time you might get up in the morning , and who gets up first , for instance , is important . |
| 28 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 29 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 30 | But there was another Empire , about the time you say your history starts , and before that another , or something like it . |