Example sentences of "[pers pn] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they come into their own , is let's say that you wanted to phone me in July because my wedding anniversary is in July , you could turn to the back of the July calendar card , write down call Ricky Elliot on the seventh , because it 's his wedding anniversary , erm , and write down my , my telephone number and then distressing though I find this idea , you could forget the whole thing , confident in the knowledge that the system will remind you at the appropriate time as to what action you should take . |
| 2 | An option for processing mail has been selected and no mail exists for you at the present time . |
| 3 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 4 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 5 | catch him at the right time . |
| 6 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 7 | So we need to get the word of God , go out with it at the right time and leave it with people . |
| 8 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |
| 9 | It was urged , on the one hand , that public opinion was not yet ready for the abolition of capital punishment and that it would be particularly unwise to abolish it at the present time when there was an abnormal amount of robbery with violence . |
| 10 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |
| 11 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |
| 12 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 13 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 14 | yes cos you always right , you remind me at the wrong time and the wrong thing |
| 15 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 16 | Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail . |
| 17 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 18 | InConcert automatically prompts and tracks all tasks in the workflow process to locate the right documents and software tools for each step of a project and deliver them at the right time to the right people . |
| 19 | Well you snip them at the growing time . |
| 20 | Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised . |
| 21 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 23 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 24 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |