Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was secure in his alibi , having spent the whole of the previous day in the Crown Court and the evening and night with friends at Norwich , only getting back to Chevisham in time for a late start that morning . |
| 2 | He joined the Post Office at Bedale in time for the Christmas rush of 1957 , but two years of his service were part-time . |
| 3 | Dumani said that the aim was to complete the privatization by mid-September in time for autumn sowing . |
| 4 | He 'd come to our house in Delaporte from time to time . |
| 5 | And Lee and his girl-friend , Suzanne , drove up from Plymouth in time to miss it , but joined us for dinner at Browns . |
| 6 | I make it down to Þingeyri in time to hear the good news that the plane has gone . |
| 7 | We met at Raven Square , Welshpool in time for the 12 o'clock train . |
| 8 | Caledor II personally kills Snorri Halfhand , King Gotrek 's son , before returning to Ulthuan in time for the hunting season . |
| 9 | Would Joseph Wright in time become a Mr Peniket , or Johnny Pyke a Commander Abigail , or Jennifer Droppy a Miss Poraway ? |
| 10 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 11 | You board the ferry at Dover early Friday afternoon , switch to the train at Calais ( where a few French francs are useful ) and reach St Anton on Saturday in time for breakfast . |
| 12 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 13 | ‘ He came of a crusading line which has held the manor of Templecombe since time immemorial ? ’ |
| 14 | He got to thinking how disappointed his parents would be if he did n't go back to Fyn in time to meet his father 's cousin . ’ |
| 15 | He left Hobart on 11 May , and was in Launceston by 18 May in time to board the Black Woke , together with 820 sheep , five horses and four other passengers , all bound for Adelaide . |
| 16 | The PR team in the Triple Crown press trailer faxed out releases at the start of the day which had hit England in time for the next morning 's edition . |
| 17 | And Dons boss Joe Kinnear reckons the time has come for Fashanu to be reconsidered by England in time for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway at Wembley . |
| 18 | Such an assertion was not entirely novel ; as early as 1515 Henry had declared that : ‘ By the ordinance and sufferance of God , we are king of England , and kings of England in time past have never had any superior but God only . ’ |
| 19 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 20 | That meeting ordered a new working group to try to reconcile the plan with the more cautious programme of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov in time for the opening of a crucial debate in the USSR Supreme Soviet on Sept. 10 . |
| 21 | ‘ We hear from Denmark from time to time , ’ Eochaid said . |
| 22 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 23 | ‘ When I bullied you into accepting my terms to get you out of gaol , my only concern was reaching Athens in time for my meeting . ’ |
| 24 | REPUBLIC of Ireland midfield star Roy Keane was set to announce today that he will be joining Blackburn in time for the start of the new Premier League season . |
| 25 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 26 | An encounter with a French frigate delayed their final sailing so that they could not reach Sumatra in time . |
| 27 | Instead , he had dropped her outside the Half Moon in Portesham , exchanged with her a few platitudes about the working week to come , then driven home to Radipole in time for tea with his mother . |
| 28 | But manager Ron Atkinson is hoping to complete the £2.25million signing of Liverpool striker Dean Saunders in time for Sunday 's televised game at Leeds — just 24 hours before Cyrille Regis goes into hospital for an Achilles tendon injury . |
| 29 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 30 | Encina already encompasses OSF 's X/Open Co Ltd-endorsed DCE technology — USL will incorporate DCE into Tuxedo over time . |