Example sentences of "come [adv] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 What I might actually do it see if Ian 's not doing anything if he not come in for the full time that they 're cleaning up , but come in for those sort of things .
2 THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million .
3 He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do .
4 If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive .
5 I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking .
6 As the curtain came down for the fourth time the ‘ helpers ’ all gave a huge sigh and reverted back to responsible adults !
7 It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time .
8 Four of the five protagonists of this story — Greco-Macedonians , Romans , Jews and Celts — came together for the first time in the Hellenistic period .
9 You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that .
10 But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time .
11 When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss .
12 ‘ Greed came in for the first time .
13 Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room .
14 Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like .
15 Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time .
16 At about this time , the BBC offered him a World Service job based in London and , at the age of 30 , he came here for the first time .
17 If it is obvious that US policy towards Indo-China could not be considered in isolation from its policy towards the rest of Asia , it is even more obvious that the integration of US policy for Vietnam came about at the same time as the disintegration of its policy towards China : the most traumatic episode in US power-war policies in Asia , at least until the outbreak of the Korean war .
18 So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance .
19 She came across for the first time today , I was out egg yard getting some eggs
20 And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome .
21 Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task .
22 Brian Cox , who runs the operation , says : ‘ Anyone coming in for the first time is going to start by taking on what 's already there .
23 In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London .
24 His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time .
25 We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ?
26 Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know .
27 ‘ Did another stranger come here about the same time ? ’
28 They do n't come round at the same time so you 're always out of phase and it always looks untidy .
29 AN ERA ends today when the shutters come down for the last time at the Owen Owen store in Liverpool .
30 Does the Wednesday ferry come in at the same time ? ’
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