Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been too quick to condemn , where in time I might redeem . |
| 2 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 3 | Although both ‘ Bomber ’ Smith and the engineers hoped that in time they would be able to bring construction times down nearer to three years ( from the beginning of work on site to the commissioning of the first sets ) , the time actually taken was typically five or more years . |
| 4 | Gay , do you think that in time we shall forget our old selves , and the things we used to do ? ’ |
| 5 | We are spending now , if this budget is accepted , a mere eleven percent of the standard spending assessment levels which means that in time we are going to get down to where the government is going to demand that we . |
| 6 | At that instant she chose the path of her own life , and understood that in time she would have to part company with her friend . |
| 7 | He had hoped that in time she would have his children and one day she might come to love him . |
| 8 | She in turn may hope that in time she will get the caring response she is really seeking and will pursue the pattern . |
| 9 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ she began with caution , clearing her throat , ‘ that in time you might like to have a new daddy . ’ |
| 10 | Recognise in time , perhaps only from the despair of repeated failure , that you yourself did not cause the disease , can not control it and can not cure it and that in time you may need to surrender the fight and hand over the care of the sufferer 's addictive disease to his or her own appropriate Anonymous Fellowship . |
| 11 | He thought that there was no barrier and that in time he could have done more for them . |
| 12 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 13 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 14 | Others soon followed : Shaba , Morani , Rongai , Amboni ; and in time they successfully mated and produced still more rhinos . |
| 15 | After this confrontation they were quite kind , and in time we became good friends . |
| 16 | Mr. and Mrs. Philpot retired to Solva in Pembrokeshire , and in time he became an Independent member of Haverfordwest RDC , and Chairman of the Parish Council . |
| 17 | Up in the Hebrides — and in time I would find myself filming mink there , too — the effect of the animals on ground-nesting birds such as common and arctic terns appears to be serious . |
| 18 | You will become more objective and in control of the situation , and in time you will gain sufficient confidence to begin to understand and deal with some of its more complex problems as they arise . |
| 19 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 20 | I think they will manage these project together and over time they will come together and they will work together . |
| 21 | And by time they be bought signed the contract and moved in , they was out to plotting the garden were n't they ? |
| 22 | The night before I kept it hot , and hot , and hot , and hot , and by time we did get it at quarter to eight I says to him , oh this is horrible , this ! |
| 23 | and by time she 'd drunk about six glasses |
| 24 | Each child had his or her own particular repertoire with a preference for some actions over others , but with time they changed their repertoire . |
| 25 | The whole incident made the short cut longer than the long cut but in time we reached the approach to the camp , much to the relief of Hassan who seemed to have less and less faith in the Second Son 's navigation . |
| 26 | Lands historically occupied by Germans would be included , but in time they would become Polish . |
| 27 | Originally , they were the property of the crown , but in time they passed to the local aristocrats . |
| 28 | For the first few days the hands and feet become too sore to practise with , but in time they become sufficiently conditioned to withstand the constant impact and calluses begin to develop in the key areas . |
| 29 | Of the children Rachel was the worst injured , with tiny pieces of glass from the windscreen in her eyes , but in time she recovered . |
| 30 | She almost apologised , but in time she stopped herself . |