Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 3 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 5 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 6 | I understood it at the time . |
| 7 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 8 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 9 | My business statement every week is based on the position as I see it at the time and we have organised matters at the time . |
| 10 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 11 | No-one usin' it at the time so that was lucky too . ’ |
| 12 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 13 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 14 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 15 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 16 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 17 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 18 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 19 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 20 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 21 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 22 | I I was , I were help him point it at the time . |
| 23 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 24 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |