Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’
3 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) ) .
4 Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her .
5 She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 She 'll make mincemeat of them in no time . ’
10 He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time .
11 But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting .
12 When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so .
13 He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was .
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