Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must find the eternal friend that has been bidden within us throughout time and which is the profound mystery of man . |
| 2 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 5 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |