Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , when no real progess is made , the time comes for reassessment , and it seems to me that that time is now . |
| 2 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 3 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 4 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 5 | Years later during the war when I went to Central Flying School to get an instructors rating , he once more instructed me and this time got another gong — Air Force Cross — for conduct far and beyond the call of duty , trying a second time to teach me to fly ( or so my mentors claim ) . |
| 6 | Few could fault them if this time round their ‘ big exam day ’ nerves were compounded by the raging controversy surrounding the new transfer test . |
| 7 | They are told about aids which can assist them and given time to discuss special problems . |
| 8 | My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye . |
| 9 | And I will tell you that some time next week what was the scope of it is . |
| 10 | Rather abruptly , when they 'd all opened their presents and had a glass of sherry in their hands , she said , with a shy look at Tim , ‘ Before we start our dinner we 'd like to tell you that this time next year you 'll be Grandma and Grandpa . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 12 | You 've Milvia 's left you and awful time cos she talked for so long , you 've got two and a half minutes . |
| 13 | So they spend less time searching for you and more time in your company . |
| 14 | would you please make sure that all through these practices that you deal with different people all the time cos in the exam and for real afterwards you 'll have to bandage all different shape people and if you just get , work in pairs you do n't get that sort of practice , by all means start of with somebody next door to you but each time you do one go across the room and find somebody you have n't done before . |
| 15 | In the past she has often been the butt of uncomplimentary remarks herself but this time it is not her performance which should be belittled . |
| 16 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 17 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 18 | For once I knew where to get at him and this time I was going to have the matter out with him . |
| 19 | She melted against him and this time he simply gathered her closer . |
| 20 | Peter picked up the wine bottle and looked at her and this time she did n't put her hand over the top of the glass . |
| 21 | Another face presented itself to her and this time she remembered it . |
| 22 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 23 | Again she considered that she may be falling in love with him but this time she was not so quick to dismiss it . |
| 24 | Coming from a semi-professional level to full Leeds player would not be easy for him but given time he could make it . |
| 25 | He was trying to embrace her but each time his arms closed around nothing . |
| 26 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 27 | Some depositors may believe that they have an obligation to archive and make available their data by virtue of having used public funds to collect it or public time and co-operation in providing it . |
| 28 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 29 | She had often thought of it and each time she did Stephen 's face came before her eyes , as clear as some mystic 's vision , the most vulnerable face she had ever seen , the face of a brave child . |
| 30 | Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it . |