Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had dowsed a spiral of energy on the stone which he found varied over time . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 3 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 4 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 5 | She raced inside the Vasey building and congratulated herself that she had caught up time , and was now only half an hour late . |
| 6 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 7 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 8 | The only reference in Cook 's brochure to an individual was to ‘ the bronze figure of the man ’ , working as he had done since time immemorial . |
| 9 | A thick cloud of mosquitoes had arrived on time and soon settled on everything and everybody . |
| 10 | She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago . |
| 11 | Unfortunately this does not appear to work the other way ; the shipowners would not be entitled to any share in a windfall profit if the market value of the cargo increased dramatically and was sold for much more than if it had arrived on time . |
| 12 | Jacky Lee , it seemed , had arrived in time , as an eighteen year old , to be part of Peter Thomson 's British Open swansong , but seven years later , Queenslander Thomson decided he had at least one more British Open title to win in him . |
| 13 | The Marshal had arrived in time , as he had promised , to see Cipolla delivered to the court and taken upstairs , chained between two other prisoners whose appeals were to be heard that morning . |
| 14 | He was interrupted by a polite cough that came from the doorway , and they turned to see Ling , who had arrived in time to hear Silas 's last words . |
| 15 | Jack of Longleigh , Adam of Rochester , and Ydrys obediently fell silent , thinking that perhaps they had arrived in time to witness the last ebbing breaths of their one-time Lucifer . |
| 16 | Though we were pleased to see you , we would have been doubly pleased if you had entered on time , that is two weeks in advance . |
| 17 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 18 | Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference . |
| 19 | She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep . |
| 20 | She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain . |
| 21 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 22 | If geology suggested that the earth 's climate had changed through time , it would make sense to accept that the Creator would design different species for each of the successive geological periods . |
| 23 | The idea of the continuity of sites over the generations is easier to accept for , if markers of some sort had been laid down , they might well have survived , even if their form had changed over time . |
| 24 | The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern . |