Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion . |
| 4 | It was conceivable , she supposed , that if she remained in the village she might see him from time to time , and if she was lucky , she thought bleakly , he might even speak to her . |
| 5 | Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency . |
| 6 | Jargon and quirkiness assail him at times like passing attacks of cramp , but in the main he is always on the alert for a new ‘ angle ’ , always individual in expression and always ready to usher the most illuminating quotations to their correct places with the discreet poise of a butler from his chosen period . |
| 7 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 8 | If Dennis came looking for her , she might hear him in time , or she might not . |
| 9 | If we pay him at time and three quarters which is the most we can pay him , we 're still making point six of a er on top of that . |
| 10 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 11 | His hatred of the Empress , whom he never forgave for producing a male heir and thus depriving him of the succession to the throne , together with his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘ reactionary powers ’ , led him at times into very deep waters indeed . |
| 12 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 13 | Perhaps we 'll reach him in time to help him . ’ |
| 14 | I could n't make up my mind about him , regarding him at times as some grotesque theatrical maniac , at other times as no more than a pleasant , if somewhat mysterious , travelling companion . |
| 15 | Be entrusted to get him on time . |
| 16 | During his period at Newcastle and later in his career when he briefly played for Grimsby Town , Gallacher was known to drink with fans in pubs near the ground , and on more than one occasion a search party had to be sent to get him in time for the kick-off . |
| 17 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 18 | Many years before he had described , as we have seen the acute but generalized sense of apprehension which invaded him at times of stress or exhaustion and one recognizes in his temperament a permanent sense of impending doom and disaster — as if the world were always threatening to fall in upon him . |
| 19 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 20 | I 'll hit him in time . |
| 21 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |