Example sentences of "i [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 2 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 3 | I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
| 5 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 6 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
| 7 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After all that , one of the arms fell off recently , reminding me of the time the same thing happened during a recording of Give Us A Clue . |
| 10 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 11 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 12 | That reminds me of the time at our branch they 're doing a visit , and they did n't come down my isle , and they started to walk out , so I said excuse me , have you come to look at my department or not ? |
| 13 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 14 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 15 | And my Will is to be Buried in Linen in a Suit which I shall provide for that purpose And I do hereby order and direct that the Sum of Ten Pounds shall be paid to the person who shall be the last in attending me to the time of my expiring and who shall see me Inclosed and laid in my Coffin in Linen . |
| 16 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 17 | And that meant a lot to me at the time because all the paintings I was doing were subjects from my childhood years . |
| 18 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 19 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 20 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 21 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 22 | The non-robbed make more relaxing if complacent company and Gilles , big loudmouth that he was , gave out an air of confidence that was appealing to me at the time . |
| 23 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 24 | Unknown to me at the time , other significant dispersals had already taken place . |
| 25 | I then did a series of films with Robert de Vicenzo , big money in those days , which convinced me at the time that Roberto would win the 1967 Open . |
| 26 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 27 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 28 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 29 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 30 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |