Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 2 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 3 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 4 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 5 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 6 | That reminds me of the time at our branch they 're doing a visit , and they did n't come down my isle , and they started to walk out , so I said excuse me , have you come to look at my department or not ? |
| 7 | That suited her at the time , it suited the law courts at the time who were the the adjudicators in the case . |
| 8 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |