Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 2 | The weekend is planned so that the free search will take place on the Saturday ; this will give people who are travelling long distances plenty of time to settle in . |
| 3 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 4 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 5 | He only just stopped himself in time . |
| 6 | Should just do it in time . |
| 7 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 8 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 9 | And our agreement does not provide us for time off with pay for an event such as this . |
| 10 | The agreements that we have will not provide us with time off with pay for this purpose . |
| 11 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 12 | It 's no great problem but I 'm not getting it on time . |
| 13 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 14 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 15 | Once , to his own dismay , he almost hit the child out of frustration , and only just curbed himself in time . |
| 16 | She saw them coming , yet knew she could not intercept them in time . |
| 17 | Even then , they did n't always make it on time . |
| 18 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 19 | And I think she 'll still do lots of time on top . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |
| 21 | But at just 31 , you 've still got plenty of time in hand . |
| 22 | So get this search off about a week before completion — you 'll still have plenty of time to stamp and register your transfer within the period of priority . |
| 23 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 24 | We still had plenty of time , or so I … ’ |
| 25 | He always had plenty of time for us . |
| 26 | They still have plenty of time in which to get it right . ’ |
| 27 | Oh yes , and I also found plenty of time to play football and cricket . |
| 28 | " You 'll probably have plenty of time to do something about your trouble anyway , " he said to Willis , " it 's quite a long business , arranging the sale of these boats . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In fact , Shiona very nearly did n't make it in time . |