Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him . |
| 2 | Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute . |
| 3 | Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen . |
| 4 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 5 | Erm , well it 's just a seminar about planning at the moment , I shall get further information about it on nearer the time , erm , a change in who would pay our , or get our VAT repayment claim from , does n't change an address basically , and er a request from Sam Stewart , whose erm a Counc , er a County Councillor , er something which I really ca n't actually erm help him with , he wants to know the whole of our Parish Council meetings date for nineteen ninety four , but I mean this is something we fix as we go along , so I really do n't think that I can help him by that , and I 'm sending him that , erm |
| 6 | Work began at seven in the morning and went on until the time , as the station-master put it , ‘ when the work is finished ’ , usually seven in the evening . |
| 7 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 8 | Form criticism examines the way in which the traditions of Jesus were preserved and handed on in the time before the writing of the Gospels . |
| 9 | Only one of these ten l.e.d.s is on at a time , the position changing to the following l.e.d. with each successive input pulse . |
| 10 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 11 | Although it was a large fire , she had never known it have more than one bar on at a time . |
| 12 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 13 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 14 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 15 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 16 | To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time . |
| 17 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 18 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 19 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 20 | Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead . |
| 21 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 22 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 23 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 24 | I was on at the time , I had my period . |
| 25 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 26 | ‘ He and Marius did n't get on at the time . |
| 27 | Thank goodness I had my knickers on at the time ! |
| 28 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 29 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 30 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |