Example sentences of "in the time [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Kerr said : ‘ We are so pleased with what has been achieved by John and Mick in the time they have been here .
2 But if apprenticeship was to work as its devisers hoped it relied upon the interest of freedmen in working for themselves in the time they were allotted and their generosity if their work for their former masters was to be energetic .
3 They are a silent order , pledged not to allow a single word to pass their lips in the time they spend as guardians of the shrine .
4 Knowledge-based innovations differ from all others in the time they take , in their casualty rates , and in their predictability , as well as in the challenges they pose to entrepreneurs .
5 By the time Ellwood had done with Piper , got as much as he could in the time they dared allow , Carey had gone .
6 He had changed so much in the time they 'd spent together .
7 There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs .
8 This is structured by hourly changes of sail or course , so that the crew can learn as much as possible about handling in the time they are aboard .
9 In the time they had been kept waiting , Patrick calculated , the Bonnard Renault could have covered at least five hundred miles of autobahn .
10 Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over
11 Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment .
12 In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings .
13 I could of finished that ship in the time we might of had
14 She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping .
15 In the time she spent in the UK , Catja was mated to Ch.
16 If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased .
17 Quality matters more than quantity in the time you spend together .
18 In the time you have at college , you can not alter them .
19 The answering of each individual question in the time you have allowed must be planned like a military exercise .
20 What I 'm driving at is , did in your , in the time you were there ever the , the workers ever get into a situation where they wanted to come out in support of another dispute in another place of work ?
21 in those days like they do in the time you 've been talking about ?
22 Why have n't you done it in the time you 've been in ?
23 She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself .
24 He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain .
25 No-one left the school unless the Headmaster was throwing them out and Endill could n't remember that ever happening in the time he had been there .
26 The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there .
27 Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device .
28 The PROFITBOSS finds profit in the time he finds for people .
29 Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him .
30 No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home .
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