Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 2 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 3 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 4 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |
| 5 | I remember thinking at the time that someone had got their priorities wrong . |
| 6 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 7 | Erm I did say at the time if the Council agreed it was we would approve the new application it would only be if the original was rescinded and I did speak to the Town Clerk so there 's no need , I 'm not making a big issue , but I think the Council should be aware and the Town Clerk I believe has notified because again this is one of those things that could happen at a later date and as we all know if we have n't made these things perfectly clear . |
| 8 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 11 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 12 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 13 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 14 | This must also have secured for Oswiu an important diplomatic contact with the Kentish court of King Eorcenberht ( 640–64 ) , son of Eadbald , and re-established the former relationship which had prevailed in the time of Eadwine and Eadbald . |
| 15 | To the left , and two doors along to the right , are two structures which have survived from the time of this picture to the present — apart , that is from Inigo Jones 's Banqueting House just visible on the same side of the street in a haze of sunlight . |
| 16 | Er well there was none of them got married during the time that I was there . |
| 17 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 18 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 19 | This can be done simply by a witness being asked in court , ‘ Is the defendant the man you saw driving at the time of the offence ? ’ |
| 20 | Not , at least , of the sort who 've emerged in the time since ‘ Raw Like Sushi ’ : singers like Lisa Stansfield , Betty Boo , Cathy Dennis , Kylie and Dannii — all of whom are peddling an ersatz glamour drawn from adolescent fantasies of sophistication , untouchable otherness , phoney celebrity . |
| 21 | I think we ca n't do justice to the point you 've raised in the time at our disposal , but it is a very important issue . |
| 22 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 23 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 24 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 25 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 26 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 27 | Although she was not suicidal the therapist agreed that she might have been feeling as if she wanted to die at the time of the overdose . |
| 28 | General Secretary , you may be ready to dive in now , but we but we want to wait till the time is right . |
| 29 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 30 | And that is what we have to do within the time and organization constraints which Norman er correctly mentioned earlier . |