Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 2 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 3 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 4 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 5 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 6 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 7 | Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ? |
| 8 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 9 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 10 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 11 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 12 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 13 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 14 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 15 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 16 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 17 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 18 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 19 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 20 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 21 | I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties . |
| 22 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 23 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 24 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |