Example sentences of "[prep] [art] time and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote what must have been the one of the shortest letters of all time , and he wrote back to the editor of The Times and he said , dear sir , in answer to your question what is wrong with the world |
| 2 | Weather did not deter them ; it rained most of the time and they traversed ground that had little or no trace of thoroughfare . |
| 3 | I will not because I am aware of the time and I wish to be fair to other hon. Members . |
| 4 | But it was good money most of the time and he loved his machine . |
| 5 | The interviewer is Peter Hayter , an owlish Friar Tuck figure who seems to be troubled by itching much of the time and who uses ‘ I mean ’ as frequently as commas . |
| 6 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 7 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 9 | We 'd have liked to try the LSE with Lowden 's new preamp system complete with volume and treble/bass controls on the upper bout , but none were available at the time and we 've had to make do with the non-controlled version . |
| 10 | at the time and we took that with us , which was an old fashioned , a really old Victorian suite which we got rid of when we moved into this house . |
| 11 | We were playing three piece at the time and we thought , ‘ What are we going to do ? ’ |
| 12 | Yeah , and we explained and said that I was pregnant at the time and we said about the policeman , oh no trouble ! |
| 13 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 14 | Uncle had a bitch called Jill at the time and they had puppies which we gave to the neighbours . |
| 15 | Yes , well er I was saying er it was this Mr I think it was , but it was to do with er a big firm in at the time and they wanted er some locks at Liverpool |
| 16 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 17 | He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit , from his days as a London businessman , to wear a flower . |
| 18 | It was very controversial at the time and it 's remained so ever since , and indeed in both Britain and America there are political movements right now to change minimum wage laws in , in ways that I think Florence Kelly would deeply have disapproved of . |
| 19 | I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's . |
| 20 | Bang a drum and it answers back , so I was working on a street market at the time and I went and bought a drum and started to learn . |
| 21 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 22 | Yeah , well look at the time and I said got |
| 23 | I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel she and the others should have been hanged at the time and I feel the same now , ’ he said . |
| 25 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 26 | The second I saw was an Alan Ayckbourn , considering that I was only six at the time and I did n't understand some of it I still was enthralled with the acting and enjoyed it almost as equally enough as the panto . |
| 27 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 28 | Well I was a drama student at the time and I suppose erm |
| 29 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 30 | He worked for the KGB at the time and he knew everything because he was involved in the secret inquiry that was set up into the ‘ incident ’ , as he called it . |