Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 But he did n't turn round and I saw only his receding back , the narrow shoulders squared , the bent legs stepping it out in time with his men .
2 Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time .
3 Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city .
4 I think the next person in the house to leave their pit made it just in time for ‘ Playschool ’ .
5 The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology .
6 He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time .
7 Leicester solved it just in time and produced a town that spilled widely across the surrounding fields and gave its working class bigger and better houses , and wider streets , than almost anywhere else in industrial England .
8 Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat
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