Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 2 | But then you see the town was on er on er on D C. And they 'd be at that time they they were beginning to change over to A C , the whole country 's A C now . |
| 3 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 4 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 5 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 6 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 7 | Nathan is behind this time which means I can have the occasional shouted conversation with Tony . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just one of those things , so try to remember what it 's like next time there 's a panic on , eh ? |
| 9 | Now that he 's on short time he 's doing more round the house . |
| 10 | Seventeen add this big number here which is minus one times whatever we 've got in here minus one times ten , what will that give us ? |
| 11 | It is at that time I would expect Leeds to be consistently playing and competing in the highest echelons of the leagues and cups — a bit like the scum are doing now ( the Gala-whatever-rice defeat excepted ) . |
| 12 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 13 | It was during that time we all learned to play properly . |
| 14 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 15 | It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature . |
| 16 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |
| 17 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 18 | It was at this time he was indicted on child abuse charges . |