Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It presupposes that that is right that those boundaries have been rightly drawn essentially for all time . |
| 2 | ‘ But apart from the fact that my mother obviously lived here at some time I know nothing at all . ’ |
| 3 | and we we 've always thought that , you know , to have a beat officer that was going around that could perhaps turn up at any time , would at least be some deterrent in so much that |
| 4 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 5 | The new pediplanation approach springs from the work of W. Penck , Kirk Bryan and Jessen … ( p 643 ) the sequence of major cyclic denudation upon all the continents alternating with episodes of elevation and mountain building , together with the relations of both phases , through coastal plain and shelf deposits , with major events in the ocean basins , are not disturbed haphazardly through geologic time but are in broad temporal conformity one with another . |
| 6 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 7 | Thirty-nine years after Roy became a schoolboy football star on the front page of the then new comic , Tiger , he is finally bowing out of big time . |
| 8 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 9 | But it is uncommon for the baby to arrive on that date , and women find it disappointing and sometimes worrying if delivery does not occur soon after this time . |
| 10 | It will not run again for some time , but from the human point of view , all was well . |
| 11 | The fog had not set in at that time , late afternoon , and the dockers were able to describe the men as respectable-looking young gents in peaked caps . |
| 12 | I could not go back for some time as the Germans had obviously built up their air force to great strength , so I threw in my lot with Fulham church in my rare off-duty times . |
| 13 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
| 14 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 15 | I mean , we , it was very nearly went through had a meeting which had the press and public excluded and I think it was not handled well at that time from and we should make it quite clear that we are watching and hopefully we do understand the situation . |
| 16 | The latter is a very slow growing starter and is happier without peat at planting time — in fact , it grows best for me in builder 's rubble and when it does get going soon catches up on lost time . |
| 17 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 18 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 19 | ‘ No more dressing up for some time . |
| 20 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 21 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 22 | That was a good sign , but Jack could still come out at any time . |
| 23 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 24 | So we want to draw a picture , that 's all a graph is , a picture so it 's eas so we can get a good idea of what 's happening and we can also read off at any time . |
| 25 | Whatever the readers ' perception , Le Monde is changing and will go on doing so for some time to come . |
| 26 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 27 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 28 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 29 | Glaswegian clubbers were a bit slow at first to take advantage of the late opening hours , says Stuart , but are now making up for lost time . |
| 30 | She took the flower-filled trug from Dr Neil , admired the blooms , adding briskly , ‘ Come along , McAllister ; you might as well make up for lost time , ’ and all three of them walked into the parlour , Matey and McAllister of necessity , since it was their only indoor access to the kitchen . |