Example sentences of "it [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Can I make it in time ? ’ |
| 32 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 33 | He had caught it in time . |
| 34 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 35 | We caught it in time . |
| 36 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 37 | If the claim is presented late , the tribunal has a discretion to allow a late claim to be submitted if it was ‘ not reasonably practicable ’ for the Applicant to present it in time ( EPCA 1978 section 67(2) ) . |
| 38 | ‘ I hope Big Ben and the convoy made it in time . ’ |
| 39 | With the traffic jams in Sandwich I doubt if you 'll make it in time . |
| 40 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 41 | Indeed this corresponds exactly to the meaning of the perfect infinitive , which does not evoke the event come directly but rather indirectly , through the result phase which this event leaves behind it in time . |
| 42 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 43 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 44 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 45 | We thought he might not quite make it in time . |
| 46 | In fact , Shiona very nearly did n't make it in time . |
| 47 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 48 | They are desperate to furnish it in time for their Easter service . |
| 49 | I think it was alright , I think we stopped it in time did n't we ? |
| 50 | Oh , a man 's pressed the button we ca n't make it in time . |
| 51 | Should just do it in time . |
| 52 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 53 | Yes , because er they did n't produce it in time so therefore it could n't be printed |
| 54 | To try an , I I 'll click and you do it in time . |
| 55 | They 'll do it in time . |
| 56 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 57 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 58 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 59 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 60 | I am sure the answer is yes ; we all do it from time to time . |