Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 2 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 3 | I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am ! |
| 4 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 5 | The individual sees the story in one way , which becomes rationalised over time , and the language used to re-tell the story should reflect the power of the whole process . |
| 6 | In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift . |
| 7 | Allen Watkins used to say that there was a core of truth hidden in the heart of all folk tales and legends if we can only find it amongst the accumulations which have occurred over time : the difficulty arose in finding out what it was — of winnowing the wheat from the chaff . |
| 8 | Those differences seem very largely to account for the variations in actual patterns of support which have occurred over time . |
| 9 | Britain offers a wealth of historic landscapes , townscapes , field systems , roads , tracks and routes , railways and canals , banks and boundaries , ancient woodlands , walls and hedges and old industrial sites , settlements which have been planned , settlements which have evolved over time . |
| 10 | This question was not repeated in 1971 ; it has the draw-back that most of the population give the minimum age , which itself has changed over time . |
| 11 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 12 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 13 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 14 | She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep . |
| 15 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 16 | She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain . |
| 17 | She raced inside the Vasey building and congratulated herself that she had caught up time , and was now only half an hour late . |
| 18 | He was interrupted by a polite cough that came from the doorway , and they turned to see Ling , who had arrived in time to hear Silas 's last words . |
| 19 | Though we were pleased to see you , we would have been doubly pleased if you had entered on time , that is two weeks in advance . |
| 20 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 21 | Like a city buried by a volcano , they remain frozen in time , untouched by the change , decay and renewal which constantly alter the structures of our conscious mental life . |
| 22 | The first 500 lucky people through the door at each gig will — if they get recorded in time — receive a free seven inch featuring mutated covers of ‘ Teenage Kicks ’ and ‘ With Or Without You ’ . |
| 23 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 24 | But they 've gone with time . |
| 25 | Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference . |
| 26 | Jack of Longleigh , Adam of Rochester , and Ydrys obediently fell silent , thinking that perhaps they had arrived in time to witness the last ebbing breaths of their one-time Lucifer . |
| 27 | They have evolved over time ; one is not right and one is not wrong . |
| 28 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 29 | History is essentially to do with personal development in that it takes as the object of study the roots and origins of groups and those of individuals and examines how they have changed over time . |
| 30 | It is important to define the estates and territories in the landscape under study , at different times , and to show how they have changed through time . |