Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 2 | When the orbital period is plotted as a function of time it shows a steady decrease : . |
| 3 | Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it |
| 4 | When you start to discover this one actually does travel through walls , the sound of it does actually does travel through walls , but as I say , it 's only a temporary measure to buy yourself a little bit of time she says . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman this little job will save a bit of time I think we 've had er an amendment set by the , the Labour group for work demands through requests er , we want er support er what Simon what Simon is making here so we er we 're making here so we erm small |
| 6 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 7 | ’ For the Hebrew , to know the time was not a matter of knowing the date , it was a matter of knowing what kind of time it might be . |
| 8 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 9 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 10 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 11 | But the mines became increasingly unprofitable despite efforts to improve them , and in course of time they were " farmed out " to Emanuel and Daniel , both sons of old Höchstetter . |
| 12 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 13 | I think in the course of time I 'll find a middle If I soften the edges — whether I need to personally or whether it 's being imposed on me — I feel I 'll be letting down the feminist revolution . |
| 14 | In the course of time I would die and then it would all be over . |
| 15 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 16 | Sooner or later The Course of Time it 'll |
| 17 | In the course of time it cooled and acquired an atmosphere from the emission of gases from the rocks . |
| 18 | Maybe in the course of time she will show me all these marvels . " |
| 19 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 20 | In course of time he finds that he is the pet antipathy of his superior officers , that he is made a butt for the amusement of other men on parade , and that if there is any unpleasant work or unpopular bear or point going vacant it falls to his lot to fill it . |
| 21 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 22 | In the course of time he becomes one of the world 's most famous cooks . |
| 23 | In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies . |
| 24 | Again , due to limitations of time I am unable to attend many of the events which you are kind enough to notify me about in advance , so as part of your planning why not appoint someone to write an article and take a photograph for the Catholic Voice . |
| 25 | If it appears that the original decisions were taken on the basis of assumptions which have not stood the test of time it is as well to re-run the exercise . |
| 26 | For quite long periods of time it went away and he forgot it . |
| 27 | In that brief fragment of time he smiled down at me . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd rather you risk your neck than me , but if it 's a question of time you 're justified ; it would take you two good hours and more to work your way about . ’ |
| 29 | Erm again it 's a question of time I 'm sure they would have been probably reasonably er adequate . |
| 30 | If the injection can reduce the fluid in the larynx in time we 'll just have to wait . " |