Example sentences of "[pers pn] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 2 | Both jobs will give him time to ‘ catch up with this international chairmanship ’ . |
| 3 | From 1839 he worked as a naval instructor in Bombay , which left him time for his main interest , the study of science . |
| 4 | Prior 's intellectual energies still left him time for his family and for a wide circle of friends , colleagues , and pupils . |
| 5 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 6 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 7 | In the last minutes of the debate — the hon. Member for Birkenhead need not worry ; I am leaving him time within the advice that I have been given — I must mention the generality of the issues raised . |
| 8 | Or is it time for ‘ Gilded Ken ’ again ? |
| 9 | The Author has staggered from the deathbed , so is it time for critical analysis to pay attention to real people 's lived lives , their traceable , material existences ? |
| 10 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 11 | Breastfeeding may be best — but is n't it time for all those who make non-breastfeeding mothers feel guilty to mind their own business ? |
| 12 | Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession ? |
| 13 | A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves . |
| 14 | The king would n't allow them time for a full consultation . |
| 15 | No satisfactory answer to this problem was forthcoming meantime , but at least the situation gave them time for the main Scots foot army to come up . |
| 16 | ‘ Those who tell you their careers come first and do n't leave them time for a family , are simply making an excuse . |
| 17 | ‘ Those who tell you their careers come first and do n't leave them time for a family , are simply making an excuse . |
| 18 | Do n't give them time for the |
| 19 | ‘ We need two points and if we refuse to give them time on the ball then I do n't see why not . |
| 20 | The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come . |
| 21 | He came to me time after time , as useless as a surcharged phonograph — drunk on Byron , Shelley , or Keats . |
| 22 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 23 | I 'd done nearly all me time in Styal , you know , and then the last thing they sent us out . |
| 24 | ‘ No point in her staying away to be tactful and give us time with Terry now this fellow 's here , ’ he said to Helen . |
| 25 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |