Example sentences of "time it [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried re-dialling two or three times , but either it was a long conversation or he could n't time it right to slip in between calls . |
| 2 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 3 | ‘ Our defence against Wigan and St Helens was tremendous , but this time it just fell apart . ’ |
| 4 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 5 | At this remove , the whole incident seems insane , but at the time it only proved once again what any driver has always known , that the constructors as a class are hard-nosed men with egos every bit as big as their drivers ' and that there is n't enough concern among them for driver welfare or safety to fuel a heart for a minute . |