Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] time [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 2 | You 'll have them in time for the competition perhaps . ’ |
| 3 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 4 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah 'd have liked to take a look around the Archaeological Museum , but Ah fear we 'd never make it in time through the rush-hour traffic . |
| 6 | ‘ And your brother made it in time for the birth ? ’ |
| 7 | Additionally , as already mentioned , patting a horse on its neck can be beneficial when trying to shoe a difficult horse ; and we pat it in time to the farrier 's hammer . |
| 8 | During his period at Newcastle and later in his career when he briefly played for Grimsby Town , Gallacher was known to drink with fans in pubs near the ground , and on more than one occasion a search party had to be sent to get him in time for the kick-off . |
| 9 | I was enormously impressed by a recent Thorofon CD of the four-art Fantasias for viols ( ) , and so I was delighted to see six-part works follow them in time for the quatercentenary of Jenkins 's birth this years . |
| 10 | He rocked her in time to the music , tugging sleepily at the pearls about her throat . |
| 11 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |