Example sentences of "[verb] them [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To avoid the 1803 rates , employers hired a number of skilled men to do the most expensive work ( known in the trade as the " fat " ) and paid them by time or stab ( establishment ) rates . |
| 10 | These charges and interest rates are variable and the Bank reserves the right to amend them from time to time . |
| 11 | The device takes two pictures from the different video channels , and aligns them in time , so that the horizontal lines of one picture exactly match the horizontal lines of the other . |
| 12 | You 'll have them in time for the competition perhaps . ’ |
| 13 | He knows that if he helps them in time of need , they will reciprocate without being asked . |
| 14 | People who do n't know we drove for miles in the rain so that it might reach them in time . ’ |
| 15 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 16 | Their exposure to instant recall of their liabilities is tolerable because the Bank of England stands ready to assist them in time of a shortage of liquidity . |
| 17 | She pushed away the papers and rubbed at her eyes , she would have to visit the creditors , pay them a little of their money and then beg them for time to pay the rest . |
| 18 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 19 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 20 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 21 | It was not long before the South Metropolitan Company 's omnibus proposals came up again and ten Daimler double deck buses were ordered in 1913 , but Daimler were unable to complete them on time and ten L.G.O.C 's ‘ B ’ type chassis with Brush bodies were substituted in July . |
| 22 | Jim Miller and Louise Wyatt would still be locked in them … maybe Karen Larsen too … all condemned to a terrible death … unless he could release them in time … |
| 23 | The insurance companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 24 | The Insurance Companies anticipate maintaining the premium rates at current levels but they retain the right to review them from time to time , subject to giving each insured person 60 days notice of any change . |
| 25 | I was enormously impressed by a recent Thorofon CD of the four-art Fantasias for viols ( ) , and so I was delighted to see six-part works follow them in time for the quatercentenary of Jenkins 's birth this years . |
| 26 | Water on the brainless , perhaps , but neither remembered to return them in time . |
| 27 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |
| 28 | Similarly , they can persuade other holders of bills to exchange them for time deposits in banks , by offering a higher rate of interest on time deposits ; something they can do if the demand for advances is high and hence higher interest rates can be charged on advances . |
| 29 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 30 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |