Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georgina was most upset at the time . |
| 2 | She looked back over that stormy summer and was surprised to see each scene , even the ones that had seemed rather painful at the time , shining with an almost holy silver light . |
| 3 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 4 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 5 | Only eight at the time of his brother 's accession in 1461 , he spent the early years of Edward IV 's reign in relative obscurity , overshadowed by his elder brother George duke of Clarence . |
| 6 | Sales volumes in May were up on a year ago for the fifth month in a row but they remained well below normal for the time of year , he said . |
| 7 | Motor traders reported a small fall in sales in the year to May following five months of growth , but business remained below normal for the time of year . |
| 8 | Shop sales grew again in May , but the upturn was relatively modest with sales still well below normal for the time of year . |
| 9 | ‘ It was like a comedy , ’ says Banderas , who spoke only Spanish at the time . |
| 10 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 11 | Such incidents were not always so funny at the time , though , in retrospect we always had a good laugh . |
| 12 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 13 | Just as the grammarian 's ‘ data ’ can not contain any variable phenomena , so the grammar must have categorial rules , and not ‘ rules ’ which are true only some of the time . |
| 14 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 15 | He felt well enough some of the time , but whenever he came under mental or physical strain , he contracted a cough and a high temperature . |
| 16 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 17 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 18 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 19 | ‘ Seeing as you 're on your own for so much of the time . ’ |
| 20 | Just as it was difficult to be alone so much of the time with such an attractive young woman , despite the size of the ship and our separate cabins . |
| 21 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 22 | He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together . |
| 23 | recycled them so much by the time we get back to school they 've had it ! |
| 24 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 25 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
| 26 | ‘ It used to get me so angry and I really wanted to protect my mother and help her , but I was only six at the time and there was nothing I could do . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 29 | But it is possible that both views were influenced by hindsight and that matters seemed less clear-cut at the time . |
| 30 | As I was only three at the time , I lacked confidence in my ability to make it back to dry land under my own steam . ’ |