Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you need to put pressure on someone , reminding them of time limits can increase their stress level and make them capitulate sooner rather than later . |
| 2 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 3 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 5 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 6 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 7 | Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good . |
| 8 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 9 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 10 | And thirdly his speed of play was fast and natural , whereas Timman found himself in time trouble on numerous occasions . ’ |
| 11 | He only just stopped himself in time . |
| 12 | He was about to tell the Headmaster the Bookman had a whole box of questions in his home but stopped himself in time . |
| 13 | He had nearly said stupid and stopped himself in time . |
| 14 | He was about to add that 's how the old man made all his money , but he stopped himself in time . |
| 15 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 16 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 17 | Has plenty of time to do so . |
| 18 | It is a very pretty stitch when finished and definitely one of those to reserve for when one has plenty of time to spare . |
| 19 | He has plenty of time for these creatures . |
| 20 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 21 | Oh yes , and I also found plenty of time to play football and cricket . |
| 22 | When the milk teeth came in that shape , Dinah had taken no heed ; no doubt the matter would rectify itself in time . |
| 23 | Discourse is more like a moving film , revealing itself in time — sometimes over long periods . |
| 24 | Then he dropped his arms as the music changed back to a funky disco beat , and without his support she stumbled , only just managing to catch herself in time before she fell against him . |
| 25 | Agnes was about to say scathingly ‘ Ask how ? ’ but caught herself in time . |
| 26 | She was about m add , ‘ I suppose that 's because you 're a tramp and sleep amongst them at night sometimes , ’ but stopped herself in time . |
| 27 | They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time . |
| 28 | Wim Beeren , the Director of the Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam who , in the face of deafening criticism , has always defended the restoration , admitted that Goldreyer did not bother to inform him in time about his plans for the last phase of the restoration in which the painted surface was to be treated . |
| 29 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 30 | She caught it in time , and had them dwindle a little . |