Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the time " in BNC.

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1 Is she alright now without them or does she have to wear them part of the time ?
2 ‘ McCabe was probably my favourite at the time because he was so intense for three or four years .
3 ‘ Keep my products for the time being , will you ? ’
4 After the hearing , Miss Lamplugh said : ‘ I did not actually think about my sister at the time .
5 I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there .
6 There was no doubt in my mind at the time that Ferrari wanted him and that negotiations had reached a fairly advanced point : perhaps exactly the point Mario wanted , the point where he could go to Chapman and say that he 'd like to stay at Lotus but that Chapman had to be able to match Ferrari 's money .
7 At times he is wise beyond his age , but I just wanted to write whatever popped into my mind at the time . ’
8 ‘ The truth is , no one was further from my mind at the time than my god .
9 well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time
10 If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving .
11 But , as luck would have it , I did n't have an opportunity to follow up my intention at the time .
12 I was on my knees by the time we unpacked the sandwiches and tried to find the energy to chew , and I recall making small high-pitched squeaking noises in reply to any attempt at a chat .
13 The fastenings flew off my jodhpurs and there had wriggled their way round my knees by the time the pony pulled up .
14 My girlfriend at the time was the daughter of an exterior decorator , and I hated exterior decorating — I mean , even at home just helping out — I hated it , but I did it because it was something to do .
15 Hence when I went to the Lords in 1965 I sat as a cross-bencher , although periodically , according to my attitude at the time , I was supporting one or other of the two parties and rarely took a cross-bench approach .
16 I 'm just describing my attitude at the time , which I shared with most of my fellow students : an attitude of complete boredom and feeling that nothing was worth making an effort for .
17 Clearly er my recollection at the time there was great concern and it can and it 's it 's it 's arguably reflected in the public response , about creating a new road passing between Harrogate and Knaresborough .
18 ‘ As the queen-dowager , my cousin and dear friend , gave you into my keeping for the time of your sojourn here — then , dear child , if you promise to have a care for your own safety , to give no offence and behave discreetly , you shall have my permission . ’
19 I want a list on my desk by the time I get back . ’
20 I was still living with my parents at the time and I 'd not long passed my driving test — with Bernie 's assistance — so I borrowed my old man 's Austin Cambridge one Sunday morning and drove over to Nick 's .
21 I did n't say anything about this to my parents at the time , but the sight haunted me for years .
22 Here is where I think it begins-with Mr. Henry Mendez , the Hatch & Hodges Division Manager at Sweetmary and still my boss at the time , asking me to ride the 16 miles down to Delgado 's with him in the mud wagon .
23 ‘ Take them off and let's get them dry , you can borrow my slippers for the time being .
24 My opinion at the time was that Saunders had committed the foul , but it must be said that there appeared nothing malicious about the way he attempted to gain possession .
25 We are setting ourselves targets for the time we take to make decisions on papers submitted to us and then to publish the papers .
26 And my husband at the time was making er wine , you know .
27 In the belief that it was time a woman was honest about the experience , my paintings try to convey the sensation of giving birth and my feelings at the time .
28 At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died .
29 I shall try to do so and also follow your suggestion of writing down my dreams at the time of waking .
30 My anger at the time of his death was n't just because I believed you 'd distracted him , it was more complicated than that . ’
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