Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she had devised a hook for time with Lucy . |
| 2 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 3 | Thistle play for time with 900 minutes to go Partick Thistle 1 St Johnstone 1 |
| 4 | For example , it will be insufficient to have merely a single deictic index for time of utterance , yet how many time indices we need seems to depend on the utterance itself : ( 100 ) Do n't shoot now , but now , now and now ! |
| 5 | In contrast to peoples who believe that their communities have existence through time through rules of corporation , the Piaroa do not understand ‘ community ’ and the relationships of which it is comprised as a political given that allows for continuity through time . |
| 6 | The Government also seems to favour a cut off time of 8pm , after which children should not be in a bar , but seems open to persuasion as to whether the Licensing Justices should have power to extend that time . |
| 7 | Perhaps maybe a cut off time for when a meeting should finish , which I think we 'd all dearly love , maybe that very common in business , maybe it 's about time we put it into council life as well , so those of progress , not trying to make people feel guilty but trying to serve the people they represent . |
| 8 | As we have seen , the Conservative Party made much , prior to the ‘ 79 General Election , of the increase in crime during time in office of the 1974–79 Labour Government . |
| 9 | In place of Aristotle 's association of time with motion and his appeal to the uniform daily revolution of the heavens as its basis , St Augustine turned , not as Plotinus had done to the concept of the ‘ world-soul ’ , but to the human mind for the ultimate source and standard of time . |
| 10 | Consequently , as Needham has pointed out , in so far as Chinese natural philosophy ‘ was committed to thinking of time in separate compartments or boxes , perhaps it was more difficult for a Galileo to arise who should uniformise time into an abstract geometrical co-ordinate , a continuous dimension amenable to mathematical handling ’ . |
| 11 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 12 | When Calder-Marshall and Malcolm Lowry first met it was the latter who felt flattered , but though Calder-Marshall was a generous friend , there is something poignant in Gordon Bowker 's comment in Malcolm Lowry Remembered that he has ‘ given a great deal of time to writing and speaking about him ’ . |
| 13 | Estimating the mass of all the matter in the Universe is not an easy task but , in the past few years , many scientists have devoted a great deal of time to it . |
| 14 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 15 | Soon this mood of despair evaporated under the influence of serene letters from Helen , who flourished among the intimate circle of artistic Bohemian young people — including the poet Charles Dalmon and the actor Franklin Dyall — who lived in Hammersmith and spent a great deal of time at Mrs Logan 's large house which had been furnished and decorated in William Morris style . |
| 16 | The secondary school to which they went on would then have an accurate record of what they could do , and could save a great deal of time at present wasted in the transition from one school to another . |
| 17 | The the erm a great deal of time at that enquiry was taken up with the alternative sites proposed by the Council erm and their suitability in relation to the . |
| 18 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 19 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 20 | ‘ Both put a great deal of time into their jobs , ’ Bloch says , ‘ and prefer rapid promotion to security and congenial work . |
| 21 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 22 | Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann . |
| 23 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 24 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 25 | Our piloting suggests that there is very little information here which could not be filled in out of the heads of appropriate teachers on these courses , so filling in the questionnaire should not cost a great deal of time for each person . |
| 26 | It took a good deal of time for me and it to get together . |
| 27 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 28 | Having spent a great deal of time on learning to hover in the ‘ safe base ’ position , you will reach a point where your carefully acquired reflexes begin to work against you . |
| 29 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 30 | He spent a great deal of time on the telephone and he was often out of the house on various missions , not returning until late at night . |