Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems odd , in retrospect , to see governments delegating so passively their most important educational function , but there were two main reasons for it at the time . |
| 2 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 3 | Especially with songs like Too Much , which was in an unusual key for us at the time . |
| 4 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 5 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 6 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 8 | They must be considered reasonable by the parties to them at the time of entering into the contract and they must also be seen as reasonable from an objective point of view . |
| 9 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 10 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 11 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 12 | We wrote columns about it at the time and no two people appear to agree . |
| 13 | He said that he thought that the wife entered into the charge of her own free will but that he would probably not have mentioned the question of undue influence to her at the time she executed the charge . |
| 14 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 15 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 16 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 17 | And er after that it was just well every man for himself I never really saw any of the guys except for the o one guy who was on the platform with me at the time . |
| 18 | I recall his emphasis on the last eleven words — and how they struck chill into me at the time . |
| 19 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 20 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 21 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 22 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 23 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 24 | It can be served on the person undertaking the activity , or on a person in control of it at the time the notice was served . |
| 25 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 26 | They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being . |
| 27 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 28 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 29 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 30 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |