Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If difficulties do arise during your time abroad , you may feel isolated and vulnerable to pressure both from local management and head office . |
| 2 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 3 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 4 | She 'd rejoined the sports club she used to belong to before she 'd allowed her membership to lapse during her time with Arnie . |
| 5 | We sat on a park bench in Clifton , having revisited the streets where Moggach lived during her time in Bristol . |
| 6 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |
| 7 | At this stage she started to write about her time in Bristol as very faintly disguised autobiography . |
| 8 | Former Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo , who had proposed the creation of Parlacén in 1986 , had been accused by critics inside Guatemala of seeking the presidency of the new body in order to claim immunity from prosecution for crimes he had allegedly committed during his time as President . |
| 9 | It is often said of the Prime Minister that he retains all the instincts and skills which were politically honed during his time in the Whips ' Office . |
| 10 | And he a writer , not minding about his time . |
| 11 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 12 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 13 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 14 | the , what Daniel wrote there it 's happening in our time |
| 15 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 16 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 17 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 18 | Josiah Wedgwood died in 1795 and is remembered as the ‘ Father of English Potters ’ , but it was not only as a pottery manufacturer that he was renowned and respected in his time . |
| 19 | Everything a pocket has ever carried in its time . |
| 20 | Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time . |
| 21 | Thalberg ( 1812–71 ) was considered in his time Liszt 's only true rival . |
| 22 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 23 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 24 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 25 | Desperately remote though it seems , this forest has in its time been much worked , beech wood having been prized for making oars for ships and sent off in great quantities to the coast . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to have to impose on your time a little longer , Doctor . |
| 27 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 28 | There was one weekend left to go of our time at Canjuers . |
| 29 | You must have grown during your time with the Fussies . ’ |
| 30 | Up to now I 've avoided mentioning our day-to-day domestic life , for much the same reason that ex-prisoners are reluctant to talk about their time inside . |