Example sentences of "was [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | to let me work this out what the distance was as time went on . |
| 2 | ‘ It was past time for me to win a big one like this and play an aggressive final round . ’ |
| 3 | We received a giant push from and poor ( the person blindfolded ) fell with a crash to the ground and it was along time before he regained his faith in us . |
| 4 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 5 | He ran back to Wednesday , hoping he was in time . |
| 6 | I hurried down the stairs and was in time to see the gentlemen proceeding into the smoking room . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm terribly glad I was in time to stop you , Miss Clinton , ’ Jenny said earnestly . |
| 8 | At the hotel I paid him in cash with a bonus and sent him on his way , and was in time to see Filmer 's backview receding into a dark-looking bar as I walked into the big central hall lobby . |
| 9 | He was in time for the last flight of the night back to Jeddah . |
| 10 | Frowning slightly , she hurried across the highly polished floor back into the dining room , and was in time to see Patrick sneeze again and then again . |
| 11 | She was in time to see the recovery of one of the young gentlemen who had begun to torment her on that night until Colonel Hope had silenced him . |
| 12 | I quickly got out of the barrel and was in time to join Hunter and Dr Livesey and the rest , at the side of the ship . |
| 13 | Stepping into the passage she trod on something soft , silky and alive , but was in time to withdraw her naked foot before it wailed . |
| 14 | But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream . |
| 15 | Running upstairs to the sitting-room window , he was in time to see her cross the road , staring up and down vaguely like a blind person . |
| 16 | Lewis had pulled in behind the taxi , and was in time to find Morse slowly — reluctantly ? — pushing two £10 notes into the slot of a Charity Bottle . |
| 17 | Leaning forward , she was in time to see a lethal-looking sports car nose its way across the cobbles . |
| 18 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 19 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 20 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 21 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 22 | Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy . |
| 23 | I was on time but kept waiting for a few minutes so that the assembled Health Authority Chairmen and administrators could pass a motion condemning the Government 's offer as divisive . |
| 24 | The Euro Horse Trophy was on time from the start and Rozier just held off Austrian Hugo Simon , who won the first World Cup final in this arena in 1979 , on Amaretto . |
| 25 | I prayed that Mr Gillis was on time and in a hurry to be done with his tedious task . |
| 26 | Dr Courtney was on time , casually dressed in a brown patterned cardigan . |
| 27 | The school bus was late , so Anna was on time . |
| 28 | Intercity gives them a very good image if your journey was on time but it 's definitely there as a a positive thing . |
| 29 | Eventually , if the train was on time , their journey which began at Paddington at 9 a.m. ended at Camborne Station at 9 p.m . |
| 30 | ‘ Did you check if the flight was on time ? ’ |