Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubbed the words off my mouth in time . |
| 2 | I walked partway along the trail , closing my eyes from time to time , imagining myself blind , unable to see . |
| 3 | it , you know , but when I do the slightly , yes I have to cross my legs between time ! |
| 4 | In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards . |
| 5 | This may sound bureaucratic and boring but without it there are bound to be anguishing problems of the kind : ‘ I handed in my work on time but it must have got lost in the pile ’ . |
| 6 | But I 'll tell you this , ’ she glared at him , her heart pounding , ‘ I 'd rather work around the clock to get the money back to my father in time than spend one minute longer than I have to with a selfish , bad-tempered misery who was obviously born an expert at everything . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll be at my prie-dieu in time for Mass , Mother . ’ |
| 8 | But the recognition did n't flash along my neurons in time to activate my legs before the thing exploded in my face with a breathy puff . |
| 9 | In Sonnet 17 , indeed , he seems quizzically aware that his dedication to panegyric may result in a loss of credibility : ‘ Who will believe my verse in time to come ? ’ |
| 10 | And twenty minutes past my knocking off time . |
| 11 | ‘ I want an archway built in my garden in time for the wedding of Lina and Pablo next Saturday . |
| 12 | Time will tell , and I put my trust in time , absolutely . |
| 13 | According to the last good book I read , this means that I am half way through my time travel , my travel through time . |
| 14 | ‘ I have made arrangements with certain people in the neighbourhood — a pastor , a doctor , business people , a local historian and so on — to receive my students from time to time and talk about their work . |
| 15 | I send my soul through time and space to greet you . |
| 16 | The reasons are the same ; the valleyside torrents are checked when they reach the main valley floor and aggradation takes place , the fan shape usually resulting from the stream shifting its course from time to time . |
| 17 | ‘ Just as it is now difficult to conceive of marketing without measurement , a PR agency seeking to change the perception of its clients … will begin by quantifying the scale of the problem … and the effect of its activities over time . ’ |
| 18 | Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority . |
| 19 | All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other . |
| 20 | They seem neither to have conceptualized their experience of time nor formed an abstract idea of history . |
| 21 | Information is correct at the time of going to press , but museums may have to vary their hours from time to time and it is worth checking before a special visit is made , especially around Christmas , Easter and Bank Holidays . |
| 22 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
| 23 | It had been eight years since the council published its accounts on time . |
| 24 | Afterwards they went to a nightclub and danced and smooched in the smoky blackness , cleaning their throats from time to time with champagne . |
| 25 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 26 | It has always been my belief that a class of our type needs to review its rules from time to time so as not to become outdated . |
| 27 | Apart from San Marino 's two professionals , almost all the players , ranging from a nurse to a shop assistant , have had to beg their employers for time off work to travel to England . |
| 28 | In an extreme form this analysis would suggest that the senior civil servants constitute an effective and permanent ruling class forced to make adjustments to their policies from time to time because of the intervention of ministers . |
| 29 | Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts . |
| 30 | As I said when answering the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) I have written individually to the chairmen of the 100 largest companies urging them to pay close attention to settling their debts on time . |