Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You bring them on from the time they 're little , and they think they 've got it made , then — wallop . ’ |
| 2 | It was pink , not red like Hank Marvin 's , which disappointed me rather at the time . |
| 3 | It 's possible that Fedorov may have exceeded his authority : I forgot to mention that he 's a madman , though he succeeds in disguising it most of the time . |
| 4 | Yeah , I 'll send him round nearer the time , I think . |
| 5 | Whether you are experiencing physical pain , mental anguish or emotional distress , you will feel it deeply at the time . |
| 6 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
| 7 | When we are insecure about our personal power , ill at ease with our individuality and allowing others to define us much of the time , we may rely heavily on other sources of power . |
| 8 | We will then contact you again about the time and place . |
| 9 | The poet picked it up and handed it over to the Time Lord . |
| 10 | No , but eh , another word that was I 've heard used , and it was , actually it was quite annoying because the chap used it , used it wrongly , but I did n't know that he 'd used it wrongly at the time . |
| 11 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 12 | That 's how it seems in memory ; and we each apprehended it subcutaneously at the time , il me semble . |
| 13 | The staff revolted , Elliott locked them out of the Time Out offices , and the magazine vanished from the newsstands . |
| 14 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 15 | ‘ I wish I 'd understood it more at the time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I watched him much of the time , Inspector , ’ said Auguste , an anxious sheepdog watching Alfred 's eyes glaze over . |
| 17 | So it 's I I counted it up for the time I 'm staying . |
| 18 | It shuts him up for the time being , and I 'm not going to give him the satisfaction of thinking his insolence cuts any ice with me . |
| 19 | We all use them much of the time and could not do without them . |
| 20 | A boyfriend came with her , rather unkempt , so keep him out for the time being at least . |
| 21 | You are also preparing them well for the time when they will be outside your jurisdiction for ever . |
| 22 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 23 | A clinical smell like solvent that reminded her instantly of the time in hospital when she gave birth to Sousan . |
| 24 | She had passed it off at the time , saying , ‘ That 's right , Sarah ! |
| 25 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 26 | Jack had it away at the time . |