Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 2 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 3 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 4 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 5 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 6 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 7 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 8 | Arrested with Mrs Dyer was her son-in-law , a Mr Arthur Palmer , who happened to be living with her at the time . |
| 9 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 10 | And Sheffield Crown Court has heard how a man allegedly kidnapped and raped his wife ; the man who ca n't be named for legal reasons , was separated from her at the time of the supposed attack , and the case is making legal history . |
| 11 | We must confirm to you at the time of booking that there is a free or reduced price holiday still available on the departure date you require . |
| 12 | If , for example , the reasons described seem unfair or conflict with what was said to you at the time of your dismissal , and you are eligible for unfair dismissal rights , the next step might be for you to make a complaint to the industrial tribunal . |
| 13 | So she was writing to him at the time I telephoned . |
| 14 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 17 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 18 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 19 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 20 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 21 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 22 | I had n't thought about it at the time |
| 23 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 24 | I ca n't think why it did n't occur to me at the time . |
| 25 | For the purpose of its own capital gains base cost the purchaser of assets buys those assets at the value attributed to them at the time of purchase . |
| 26 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 27 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 28 | It was the only vacancy offered to me at the time |
| 29 | You stopped because you both decided it was the right thing to do for you at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |