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

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1 So if you are pressed for time it is better during your first year in a language area to give more time to direct contact with people than to spend hours at your desk typing .
2 But you were n't allowed to come out the pit , I mean you had to wait until knocking off time you see , before you were come out , Anything like that I mean er unless you 've got broken legs or anything like that .
3 If you do n't bill on time you ca n't expect to be paid on time .
4 RUGBY LEAGUE came out of the north of England because a number of Yorkshire and Lancashire businessmen thought that talented lads should be compensated for time they took off from the pit or the plant .
5 Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote .
6 Just give dem some time fe speak in time dey will explain
7 If I noticed in time I would have to run after him and ask for it .
8 Depends on time you go out for a time
9 We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather .
10 But it 's cost me over , well it will have done by time I 've finished putting radio in , about hundred and forty pound .
11 be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front .
12 It went to time it went through the stone door
13 She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain .
14 If we were to inspect the balance sheet at intervals as this process continued over time we should find that operational balances were oscillating around their original level while the increases appeared in deposits ( on the liabilities side ) and advances ( on the asset side ) .
15 The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' .
16 But by failing to register in time you will have lost the chance of being given preference in allocation .
17 You need to time it as soon after the incident as possible , so that it 's fresh in the person 's mind .
18 You need to time it , and I really
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