Example sentences of "time but [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes truth may be suppressed for a long time but while it is imprisoned it gathers to itself more and more power so that on the day that it is finally released it explodes , blowing everything asunder . |
| 2 | I 'm sure he gives them a lot of his time but if you practise and play that much … hell , you have got to do so many other things as well . ’ |
| 3 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 4 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 5 | Maggie had no idea what it was and no notion of the time but as she opened her eyes every sense was alert . |
| 6 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 7 | I mean , I did n't think so at the time but when I think of it you know , and later when I came back after the war we , oh my God ! |
| 8 | This may well seem to be the most efficient way of utilising office time but when it comes to weighing up effectiveness the pro-forma is a non-starter as parents are antagonised by this bureaucratic and impersonal style of communication . |
| 9 | Constanza was out most of the time but when she dropped in to change , there they were , rattling Italian to each other , poring over Anna 's art books — ’ Bet you 've never been inside Sant'Agnese in Oscurità ? ’ |