Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 2 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 3 | It was obvious to Folly that he was playing for time . |
| 4 | That sense of disintegration which he always feared was now all around him ; earlier in 1938 , he had told Martin Browne that public events made him feel that he was working against time and that , in any case , the race might be lost . |
| 5 | He was working against time ; he had promised Browne that he would complete the play by the summer , and already Browne had been negotiating with Rudolf Bing , the director of the Edinburgh Festival , to have The Cocktail Party performed as part of that year 's event . |