Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , mind you June do n't know what the hell she 's ringing me half the time , because she bloody rings and , half of time it 's |
2 | and then when you go on to book and we 'll if we get through this in time we 'll have a look at book two as well . |
3 | If you can not get this in time you may , exceptionally , be able to get a Social Fund Crisis Loan from your Social Security office . |
4 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
5 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
6 | If , for each country , is constant over time it follows that will be a constant , although of course for different countries it will be a different constant . |
7 | I sit on an authority they are very tiresome at times they make mistakes at times rather like Governments My Lords but at the end of the day that surely is what democracy is all about is n't it ? |
8 | Again , there is more than we would like to do , and more that in time we will do . |
9 | Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ . |
10 | That in time I shall supply , |
11 | Had he not been so short of time he might well have found 25 … |
12 | Erm Mr Gordon , given the fact that we are running a little short of time I think if you could give us a note on your contractual arrangements then that will take this matter forward and we |
13 | You got your hands full by time you do some shopping with them . |
14 | Yeah , they 're a bit inflexible at times I find . |
15 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
16 | They 're the times when when actually look at which ones we 'd use remember the strengths in these some of the biggest yes you can go into greater detail you can see the reaction face to face you 'll get feedback straight away verbal as well as non-verbal er you know immediately what the answer is if there 's if you 're waiting for some sort of reply to it , you 'll have more effect because it 's face to face erm , cheap on material but it 's expensive on time you do n't have a formal written record and it can be very time consuming . |
17 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |