Example sentences of "and [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to four ON and OFF time settings can be programmed . |
| 2 | Not many people will complete the route in fewer than 12 days , so trying to fit the walk into a two-week holiday is pushing your luck — you must make allowances for delays and for time spent on the island getting to and from the start and finish . |
| 3 | The importance of this way of conceptualising drug use lies in its ability to treat drug use non-judgementally as a continuing process which can and does vary between individuals and through time for the same individual . |
| 4 | And through time , the establishment became very efficient . |
| 5 | ‘ No doubt it is. , ‘ Oh aye , high time and past time . |
| 6 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 7 | It lengthens the odds on any serious chance of learning taking place , and of time being held up while the child is absorbed in what Ted Hughes calls ‘ a raid on the subconscious ’ . |
| 8 | He had to reach the President 's cabin with at least an hour of daylight in which to plan his defence and with time to get through to Caspar on the President 's radio . |
| 9 | And with time and experience it 's something that I 'm getting better at . |
| 10 | It can cope with a cold , fight off a serious illness and with time , even mend a broken bone . |
| 11 | That autumn , I was working in a vineyard in the Medoc , north of Bordeaux , and with time to spare when the vintage finished , I decided to visit Rennes-le-Chateau and see for myself what all the fuss was about . |
| 12 | But , having outgrown Stowe and with time to kill before going up to Cambridge , he gravitated , almost inevitably , to the London School of Economics , where his active interest in politics began to overshadow his desire to be a poet . |
| 13 | The more mischievous of his colleagues , bored by the proceedings and with time on their hands , watched with fascination the progress of his affairs . |
| 14 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 15 | By ten to two she had deposited the larger of her two suitcases , had partaken of a cheese sandwich and a cup of coffee and , seated in the hotel lounge , and with time to kill while she waited for Ven , she was again being plagued by the vexed question of that abominable interview . |
| 16 | jean had her arm round Donald 's waist now and from time to time she skipped , roused by the fighting spirits of the menfolk . |
| 17 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 18 | They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen . |
| 19 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 20 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 21 | But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine . |
| 22 | The five children of the household — all under twelve — sat staring at him and from time to time discussed him with one another in rapid French , which in spite of his recent visit to the country as a ski soldier , totally escaped his capacity to understand . |
| 23 | Raymond was witty and unusual and from time to time he was invited to drink coffee at the artists ' cafés . |
| 24 | Lincoln University was white-tiled towers , variegated with violet tiles and orange tiles and from time to time acid-green tiles . |
| 25 | The Serbian press is full of anti — Albanian reports , and from time to time Albanian shops in Serbia are wrecked . |
| 26 | The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed . |
| 27 | When you start work , you should have a formal meeting with your manager , and from time to time there will be follow-up meetings . |
| 28 | Centuries before the first holidaymakers stepped on to the county 's beaches , men were hewing hard rock , deep underground , to extract the ores that brought wealth , and from time to time even political influence , to their remote , windswept peninsula . |
| 29 | I remember that at primary school we had to keep a diary , and from time to time someone would be picked out to face the class and read it aloud . |
| 30 | What this meant varied greatly from place to place and from time to time ; nor can we make any satisfactory generalizations about the nature of medieval law . |