Example sentences of "on [pron] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 2 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 3 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 4 | ‘ And then set your thugs on me the first time my back 's turned . |
| 5 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 6 | Returning now to the referral and investigation work undertaken by the team between October 1987 and March 1988 , Table 3 provides some detail about the range of activities on which the total time of 253 hours was spent and shows that the bulk of the activity time was spent in direct contact with children and/or their caregivers . |
| 7 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 8 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 9 | I kept my eyes on it the whole time , he wrote . |
| 10 | Silently she handed him her cup and watched him sip it appreciatively , his eyes on hers the entire time . |
| 11 | On May 21 , after a four-day negotiating session , Agriculture Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) agreed on what the Financial Times of May 22 assessed to be " the most radical reform of the common agricultural policy [ CAP ] since its inception 30 years ago " . |