Example sentences of "[prep] time [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
| 2 | Time after time he had pressed the claims of a workingman candidate on a constituency " , but they had properly chosen the man who was considered to be most suitable for the constituency . |
| 3 | Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away . |
| 4 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 5 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 6 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 7 | Time after time he defended himself from Carter , time after time the screw intervened , again and again he was n't pushed to the floor . |
| 8 | Time after time I ran away and my social worker could see that I was n't happy . |
| 9 | Time after time I stumbled over some hummock of tough grass , and once I went into a creek up to my shoulders . |
| 10 | time after time I tried to walk away I come to depend on you I give you all the love I had in me . |
| 11 | Waste of time me cutting , of course ! |
| 12 | Doses received by local people would depend on the amount of time they spent near areas of higher radioactivity , and on whether any of the radioactivity passed through the food chain . |
| 13 | You would wonder how they could eat at all after the amount of time they spent talking about food . ’ |
| 14 | Many women found it difficult to put an exact figure on the amount of time they spent on the various areas of farm work . |
| 15 | The length of time they spent there and the types of homes involved are shown in Table 1 . |
| 16 | To analyse what managers actually do , Mintzberg categorised their activities and calculated the amount of time they spent on each . |
| 17 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 18 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 19 | Did n't , did n't they mean that as in a period of time they 'd been stuck in the Ark . |
| 20 | As he studied the list of names of men who had evaded the Dragoons , the names of 2 Ayrshiremen took his attention , both for the length of time they had eluded ‘ justice ’ . |
| 21 | Turning to those who were referred by the GP to another agency , a major problem experienced by this group was the length of time they had to wait for an appointment ( see also Watson 1985 ) . |
| 22 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 23 | In general I thought the campaign was well presented and dealt with by Media Action given the shortness of time they had to prepare the sketches and the associated scripts . |
| 24 | Several cast sheep were found , lying on their backs while their legs kicked the air helplessly , but after Silas had grabbed their thick wool and jerked them to their feet they also ran , or staggered away , depending upon the length of time they had been cast . |
| 25 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 26 | For behaviours which do not have obvious start and finish points , watching television or paying attention to a lesson for example , it is more appropriate to measure the length of time they last . |
| 27 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 28 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 29 | Taking into account the length for the length of the features and the cons the consultation that take place and the length of time they take , I do not expect to see er Bungay bypass construction for some time yet , but I do expect the County Council to progress on that in such a manner that Bungay will not grind to a halt . |
| 30 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |