Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 2 | Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over |
| 3 | mm and that I , I think they do and the robin and the , that one starling and the thrush , I think they all roost there cos they seem to be about every time you throw stuff out I just remembered Tom 's father worked at er , the electric company |
| 4 | Ok , normally what we do is to charge erm , erm the lowest charge is fifty pence per mile ok , so that 'll be from the time it leaves here in London till the time it returns . |
| 5 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 6 | ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there . |
| 7 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 8 | Actually they 've picked up the pace Forest since the goal erm do n't this Leicester are playing anywhere near as well as they were at the time they scored . |
| 9 | Many polytechnics were now as large as many of the universities and in a similar , if not better , condition than the CATs were at the time they became universities . |
| 10 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's about the time you washed my mouth out with soap . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |
| 14 | It 's by the time I could get my gloves on . |
| 15 | But the funny thing is by the time I got home I still remembered it . |
| 16 | It is so time-consuming that you need to look at the end result with a very critical eye and decide whether it was worth the time it took to produce . |
| 17 | Though her radicalism had not begun to develop , her individualistic streak was already fully formed , as Miss Suter recalls : ‘ It was about the time we were beginning to have trouble with student sit-ins , and Katharine stuck out against it . |
| 18 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 19 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 20 | It was about the time you dropped the raw egg into your great-aunt 's letter box . ’ |
| 21 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 22 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 23 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 24 | We , I used to move around a lot on those days as you could do really speaking because I was n't old enough to be under the Essential Works Order you see , and er I was by the time I went into the army it was 1946 so er the war was over . |