Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
2 | I happened at that time to be a Council member , and I was therefore able to point out that Bondi 's listing of observational errors were all taken from well-attested literature . |
3 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
4 | Catherine Turnbull , Magdalene Avenue , Carrville , Durham : I worked at that time on public transport , Durham and district . |
5 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
6 | The last thing I needed at that time was pity . |
7 | I struggled for some time to understand the metaphors until an inner voice said to me during meditation : ‘ You 're in martyr over this book . ’ |
8 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
9 | I thought at half time I had got it exactly right . |
10 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
11 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
12 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
13 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
14 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
15 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
16 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
17 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
18 | I had by this time met the latter . |
19 | ‘ It was a very important game , because one of the top assessors was there , but if I continued after half time , I could have done myself harm physically . |
20 | Among the unpublished poems I wrote at that time there is one that tries to express my feelings of loneliness and abandonment by my beautiful god . |
21 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |