Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But Sunday afternoon was reckoned to be his off time . |
| 6 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 7 | But we 've found yours in time . ’ |
| 8 | am I on time , am I late , |
| 9 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 10 | No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us . |
| 11 | They let the people in you know ooh my by time we set off I er it were like Christmas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 14 | Erika has been away plenty of times , and if Fräulein Silber thinks that it is the right thing to do then it is the right thing . |
| 15 | In a first-rate film this happens plenty of times . |
| 16 | After all , grievances had been aired before , plenty of times , usually with Theo acting as peace-maker . |
| 17 | Plenty of times I 'm sure he stayed out only to avoid Mum 's sharp tongue because there was no work to be had for any of the men . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 19 | There may be times when , in the pressure of a hectic Monday morning , this may seem of marginal relevance ; but there are plenty of times when it does not . |
| 20 | " I 've pulled the teams around from the yard plenty of times . |
| 21 | My husband actually said to me that giving up smoking was easy because he 's done it plenty of times . |
| 22 | There are likely to be plenty of times in the coming months when he 'll want to walk away , because no matter what attitude he starts with , he 'll be affected by the Grendon experience and that can be frightening . |
| 23 | and she goes I 've had enough questions for one day , I said it plenty of times she said oh shut up you wee wally |
| 24 | There was plenty of time before Curtain Up at 8 o'clock , half the cast had gone out and backstage had a drowsy air about it . |
| 25 | Gears must be used more frequently with the extra weight of the loaded trailer , and it is important to change down in plenty of time to prevent having to brake fiercely . |
| 26 | With a low-powered winch or tow car , the acceleration is far slower and there is plenty of time to get the glider nicely balanced on the wheel so that it leaves the ground with a safe margin of speed . |
| 27 | If they are recognised , there is almost always plenty of time to prevent a stall occurring . |
| 28 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 29 | You have plenty of time yet , Piper . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not yet 30 and I 've still got plenty of time to earn more money , ’ he shrugged . |