Example sentences of "[pers pn] in time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Jim Miller and Louise Wyatt would still be locked in them … maybe Karen Larsen too … all condemned to a terrible death … unless he could release them in time … |
| 32 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 33 | Water on the brainless , perhaps , but neither remembered to return them in time . |
| 34 | Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency . |
| 35 | During his period at Newcastle and later in his career when he briefly played for Grimsby Town , Gallacher was known to drink with fans in pubs near the ground , and on more than one occasion a search party had to be sent to get him in time for the kick-off . |
| 36 | If Dennis came looking for her , she might hear him in time , or she might not . |
| 37 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 38 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 39 | Perhaps we 'll reach him in time to help him . ’ |
| 40 | They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time . |
| 41 | I 'll hit him in time . |
| 42 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 43 | Margaret , who is divorced from Lord Snowdon , is the Queen 's closest ally after their mother and always rallies around her in times of crisis . |
| 44 | Betty left this world with a one-and-threepenny funeral , supplemented only by the generosity of the chapel which had stood by her in time of need : ‘ Pd . |
| 45 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 46 | Toby Hedworth , defending , said the man never intended the child should die and meant to release her in time . |
| 47 | His taste in films , plays , books and music was far more decided than her own , though she would not admit that it was superior : she thought that , given time , she could outdo him , but as he had a good start on her in time , she was glad to listen to him . |
| 48 | He rocked her in time to the music , tugging sleepily at the pearls about her throat . |
| 49 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 50 | Scathach pushed her away , turning her in time to deflect the blow from another raider . |
| 51 | Heroine trapped in the treasure cave , time ticking away until the Big Bang ; can the hero reach her in time ? |
| 52 | Ronni looked into his eyes and smiled at the compliment , inwardly shuddering as he took her in his arms and proceeded to lead her in time to the music . |
| 53 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 54 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 55 | Now the goal is to complete it in time for an autumn summit . |
| 56 | Additionally , as already mentioned , patting a horse on its neck can be beneficial when trying to shoe a difficult horse ; and we pat it in time to the farrier 's hammer . |
| 57 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 58 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 59 | The question is whether the voters will realise it in time for polling day . |
| 60 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |