Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 3 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 4 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 5 | But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic . |
| 6 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |