Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you need to put pressure on someone , reminding them of time limits can increase their stress level and make them capitulate sooner rather than later . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 5 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 6 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 7 | Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good . |
| 8 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 9 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 10 | They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time . |
| 11 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 12 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 13 | She caught it in time , and had them dwindle a little . |
| 14 | We caught it in time . |
| 15 | I think it was alright , I think we stopped it in time did n't we ? |
| 16 | He had caught it in time . |
| 17 | And leved he in time of blody kinges |
| 18 | It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money . |
| 19 | ‘ What a very , very good thing you stopped us in time ! ’ she said to Brenda . |
| 20 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 21 | It is not the commonly occurring long drawn out explanatory warning ( 'If you do n't stop whining I 'll get cross with you and then put you in time out until you stop' ) . |
| 22 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 23 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 24 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 25 | Well it is quite true that if you come to eat before you see a film you have to ask if they can do it in time . |
| 26 | Should just do it in time . |
| 27 | They 'll do it in time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | What he meant by mysticism was belief in a direct , immediate experience of God ( or of Jesus ) which dissolved the distinction between God and man or between Christ and ourselves , a rapture of union which could carry us beyond time and history and the challenge and responsibility of the present . |