Example sentences of "[pron] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my time which coincided with Frank Hodsoll 's two terms as Chairman the agency ran smoothly , and few grants of a clearly scabrous nature ever managed to make it up from the panels , past the Chairman 's gimlet eye , to the Council . |
| 2 | In my time they erm , the sugar beet , sugar beet pulp . |
| 3 | I said to her , I said : ‘ In my time they called it idleness , ’ I said , ‘ if it was n't stupidity . ’ |
| 4 | That 's where I served my time they did n't phew |
| 5 | Even in my time we tend to think of aliens … you know , people from Outer Space ? as being so much in advance of our own civilization . |
| 6 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 7 | We missionaries were rather slow to respect this return to the home village by a second funeral service , though in my time it became more acceptable . |
| 8 | Oh that was approximately about erm , well I 'm talking about now in my time it must be over twenty year ago , when he introduced that and the simple reason was there was an argument between the deputy harbourmaster and the boatmen which are the cos they used t it all happened over a ship called used to be a collier , used to run here regular and that used to discharge so much coal at Cliff Quay , then it used to go into the dock at Tolwells Quay and finish unloading because it used to bring two or three different lots of coal , it was a four hold ship , she had four holds , and there 'd be one hold for the chemical works and perhaps there 'd be three holds for and that se |
| 9 | I think they call it fire safety now , in my time it was fire prevention but now fire safety which is probably a better word for it . |
| 10 | No I tell you it 's wasting my time it 's a known problem |
| 11 | But most of my time I 'd spend with other Struldbrugs , friends of mine . |
| 12 | I can get about a bit , I 'm not er hobbling as much , as l as long as I take my time I 'm not too bad . |
| 13 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 14 | Oh I li well I , I 've had a lot of moves dear in my time I tell you I , first of all when I first got married I lived at Bishop 's Stortford , then from Bishop 's Stortford I went to erm Stansted in rooms cos I , you know we could n't get a place and from there I had one of my sons oh hello time , eleven o'clock just struck what 's the day ? |
| 15 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 16 | Oh no you Well again er as I say I I 'm speaking in in my own time , er and in my time you were left school before you started in the yard at all , aye . |
| 17 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 18 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 19 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 20 | In their time they were regarded as great magicians who brought prosperity to these parts . |
| 21 | In this classification Morgan , and Engels after him , were following a very widely accepted schema of their time which , as we have seen , had already been used , albeit somewhat differently , by Marx . |
| 22 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 23 | In their time there was a general recognition of an ultimately important spiritual dimension to life that is lacking in our own — a sense of the universe given meaning by God so that man 's words interpenetrate with the Word , that whole transcendent meaning so fragmented and distorted by the Fall . |
| 24 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 25 | Though the theory was many years ahead of its time it was almost wholly guesswork and rested on no satisfactory contemporary experimental evidence . |
| 26 | But in its time it represented a real advance . |
| 27 | Ruth Lowinsky 's book is a true period piece , which is to say that in its time it was bang up to date . |
| 28 | The more characteristic of its time your crime is the better your book will be . |
| 29 | She also found that a lot of her time which could have been used to produce more goods was being taken up selling goods , collecting debts and generally doing administrative work . |
| 30 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |