Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 3 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 4 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 5 | Her reaction to that had been swift but , so he persuaded himself at the time , perhaps rational . |
| 6 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 7 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , it was , ’ Athelstan replied , though he remembered he had not asked that question himself at the time . |
| 9 | ‘ But my chief at Liverpool CID would not let me take part , because he was away on holiday himself at the time , and required me to stand in for him . |
| 10 | ( c ) the willingness of the offeror to commit itself to the time and expense involved in a contested bid ; |
| 11 | On a commercial note , it may well be that the insertion of a landlord 's break will reduce the market rent obtainable for the property , a fact which will doubtless manifest itself at the time of the first rent review after the landlord 's power to break has become exercisable . |
| 12 | I construe this agreement as a promise by the husband to pay his wife 30s. a week in consideration of her promise to maintain herself during the time she is living separate from him , whether due to her own fault or not . |
| 13 | Maybe she had n't quite been herself at the time . |
| 14 | She had n't been around herself at the time and said Gustav did n't like talking about it much . |
| 15 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 16 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 17 | Carol had more or less righted herself by the time I let her out of the side door . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've always wanted to meet you to say something … just to say I 'm sorry , but … but I could n't help meself at the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Set realistic goals Make sure you can achieve what you set yourself in the time |
| 22 | A teenager myself at the time , I found the occasion awkward and somewhat embarrassing , as I suspect some of the pupils did . |
| 23 | I recognised those questions as pertaining to myself at the time I became anorexic . |
| 24 | However , the main problem that concerned Pat , Gabriel and myself at the time was not so much the details of the biochemistry , but a theoretically more important matter . |
| 25 | I well remember I said to myself at the time , " there is a lad who will go a long way . " |
| 26 | Primarily though it 's how you are in yourself at the time which determines whether you are going to get up the mountain and get back down . |
| 27 | Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt someone . |
| 28 | ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes . |
| 29 | I walked fast , to keep warm , so it may have been that I was a little above myself by the time I reached the school where the classes were held , because that night , try as I would , I could not believe anything our teacher was telling us . |