Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 2 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 3 | I mean at the time |
| 4 | I mean in the time is takes you to do a sketch you can draw accurately |
| 5 | I mean by the time you get to a two years . |
| 6 | Last year there was at least the argument that high interest rates were about getting inflation down ( a view I disputed at the time ) . |
| 7 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 8 | I write now as I found at the time . |
| 9 | All along , as I reported at the time , Sarah had wanted to take her baby with her . |
| 10 | I assumed at the time that he was crying for the garden and what he 'd done to it . |
| 11 | It was , I assumed at the time , perfect love . |
| 12 | Yet I seemed at the time to be thinking rationally , to be making common-sense plans . |
| 13 | The only clue ( and one I ignored at the time ) , was Selkirk 's interest in the Abbey of St Denis to the north of the city . |
| 14 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 15 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
| 16 | Anyway , I paid at the time . |
| 17 | On the back of the Topper , a comic I read at the time , was a serial of Robert Louis Stevenson 's Kidnapped , told almost entirely in pictures . |
| 18 | It was a paeon of praise for the comic I read at the time — a tuppenny coloured one ! |
| 19 | I agree that the effect of Spitting Image 's caricature on Steel 's relationship with Owen was such that , as I commented at the time of the collapse of the Alliance , it was the only television programme that could claim to have brought down not just one but two political parties simultaneously . |
| 20 | And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly . |
| 21 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 22 | I remember at the time wondering why . |
| 23 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 24 | I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us . |
| 25 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 26 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 27 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 28 | I may not have understood everything I heard at the time , but later it all slotted into place . |
| 29 | ‘ I reckon by the time we 're 22 we 'll be doing a folk album , ’ yells Hugo , worryingly . |
| 30 | I reckon by the time we finish this year , we 'll have spent £4,000 on training and equipment for Fiona . ’ |