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

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1 I found her just in time .
2 My not being there is hardly likely to lose us the account if Ru — ’ She stopped herself just in time .
3 And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery .
4 You get it there on time .
5 Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’
6 Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration .
7 They got it just in time .
8 They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously .
9 I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years .
10 They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’
11 He made it just in time , for Scamp had reloaded and fired again .
12 " Where — " He checked himself just in time .
13 He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes .
14 A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see .
15 Whilst this may be ‘ wrong ’ according to the traditional school it costs nothing apart from time and quickly reveals both what does and does n't work in terms of presentation .
16 He did it just in time .
17 ‘ Yes , but will it get me home in time to see Coronation Street tonight ? ’
18 She probably needs a good … ’ starts Mark , but he stops himself just in time .
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