Example sentences of "[prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a fork-lift truck driver with General Motors , he worked at the Budweiser brewery at night , and in between times he was a bartender. ’ lf0020 |
| 2 | In between times he made nails , chains and tools or turned out spare parts for canal machinery . |
| 3 | In between times he has worked in Grattan St. , Sligo 1969–74 , Laurence St. , Drogheda 1975–77 and Swinford 1977–84 . |
| 4 | I mean , the seats come out so that wheelchairs can go in but in between times it 's twenty seats you see . |
| 5 | I mean , the seats come up so that wheelchairs go in , but in between times it 's twenty nine seats |
| 6 | You have spent most of your day sitting in your office while I , from seven o'clock this morning until ten tonight , have been at the beck and call of two old women ; I have seen to the needs of my child , and in between times I have cooked the meals and done whatever I could towards keeping this mausoleum clean . ’ |
| 7 | I had three a year and of course in between times you go we had quarter fare if we want to go anywhere , you see and er of course it was the old money in those days and I would come from Ipswich to see my parents here for sixpence halfpenny then and er , you see , I used to go on holiday alone . |
| 8 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 9 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
| 10 | Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away . |
| 11 | Time after time he had pressed the claims of a workingman candidate on a constituency " , but they had properly chosen the man who was considered to be most suitable for the constituency . |
| 12 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 13 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 14 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 15 | Time after time he was shortlisted because at the interviews the company managers liked him ( he 's quite intelligent , outgoing and friendly ) . |
| 16 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 17 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 18 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 19 | Time after time I used to land up off the stage in tears . |
| 20 | time after time I tried to walk away I come to depend on you I give you all the love I had in me . |
| 21 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 22 | Then , from doing the same puzzle a number of times they remember where each piece fits . |
| 23 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 24 | A recent survey in West Surrey and North East Hampshire asked district nurses how many clients they had with ulcerated limbs ; the number of times they visited each patient ; and the types of treatment given for a specific month . |
| 25 | They are very gentle and , as the muscles regain their strength , you can increase the number of times they tummy strengthener exercises can be attempted . |
| 26 | ‘ This rise , together with the increase in car tax , will force some disabled people on benefits to seriously limit the number of times they leave the house , ’ she said . |
| 27 | As we listen to these phrases that rolled so easily off the tongue , and which have also rolled on down through history to our own time , we must make a special effort to remember very carefully just who the men were who engineered the Garotter 's Act — what kind of men they were ; what kind of times they lived in ; and what forces helped to shape their upright moral certitude . |
| 28 | The number of times they 'd heard that . |
| 29 | They choose the correct direction with increasing accuracy as the number of trials ( the number of times they have been allowed to run through the maze ) increases . |
| 30 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |