Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while United were now reduced to ten men during that last desperate half hour of extra time they survived magnificently to force themselves into the dramatic penalty spot finale in the rain . |
| 2 | Over the wall , overlooking Kingsdale , is a tight concentration of potholes , some of great depth , but if Whernside 's summit is to be reached in good time they must be considered out of bounds . |
| 3 | In good time they shall . |
| 4 | Meantime , the Brothers exercised , recited litanies , incanted the familiar battle-prayers , meditated , now and then duelled , tested themselves upon algometric pain-meters … and in spare time they scrimshandered the bones of the dead . |
| 5 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |