Example sentences of "him [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If Dennis came looking for her , she might hear him in time , or she might not .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Perhaps we 'll reach him in time to help him . ’
6 They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time .
7 I 'll hit him in time .
8 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 ?
9 Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth .
10 I know Mother traded with him from time to time , and once sent a quantity of wool away to another mill and had some back as grey blankets .
11 The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion .
12 He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time .
13 While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention .
14 And although the Robemaker lashed out at him from time to time with the thin , cruel rope-lights , he managed not to flinch .
15 Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock .
16 He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’
17 Kate did not seem to play a great part in her husband 's political life : she appeared on platforms with him from time to time , but she was by no means an automatic member of his entourage .
18 but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the
19 It was conceivable , she supposed , that if she remained in the village she might see him from time to time , and if she was lucky , she thought bleakly , he might even speak to her .
20 Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest .
21 Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now .
22 Be entrusted to get him on time .
23 If we pay him at time and three quarters which is the most we can pay him , we 're still making point six of a er on top of that .
24 As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument .
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