Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party . |
| 2 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 3 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 4 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ After having been a teacher in my past , my best answer is this : kids always seem to want to learn stuff that 's way to hard for them at the time . |
| 6 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 7 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 8 | There was something between them at the time . ’ |
| 9 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 10 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 11 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 12 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 13 | What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody . |
| 14 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 15 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 16 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 17 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 18 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 19 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 20 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 21 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 22 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 23 | However , since fourteen topics were listed , even fairly full courses must have paid quite limited attention to any one topic , in order to cover all of them in the time available . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The world entered a long-term period of recession and chronic unemployment , both of which at the time of writing seem to have become endemic to our advanced societies . |
| 26 | Secondary trading in the government bond market is dominated by the gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) of which at the time of writing there are eighteen . |
| 27 | ‘ I could have jumped on board of her at the time from the jib-boom . ’ |
| 28 | He 's a sort of help and partner , and he 's had part of the rearing of her from the time I took her , and his advice is always sensible . |
| 29 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 30 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |