Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew Purvis would get to the bottom of it in time . |
| 2 | Or she could , if she thought of it in time , say that Derek had always been the most frightful liar . |
| 3 | They 'd grow out of it in time , she thought . |
| 4 | The routine of the annexe on Friday after school was disturbed by Mr Crumwallis making ineffectual invasions of it from time to time . |
| 5 | Indeed this corresponds exactly to the meaning of the perfect infinitive , which does not evoke the event come directly but rather indirectly , through the result phase which this event leaves behind it in time . |
| 6 | Eating out will be the most difficult for the first two stages , but you can certainly get away with it from time to time . |
| 7 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 8 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 9 | The idea was to put him in it from time to time to give his gammy leg a rest . |
| 10 | Dr Nolan said it was just shock and she would get over it in time , but it was hard to live with just the same . |
| 11 | Alain was greatly distressed by his death , but , ’ she hesitated for a moment before continuing , ‘ he would have got over it in time . |
| 12 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 13 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 14 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 15 | We 'll never get you on to it in time . |
| 16 | She stared down on it from time to time . |
| 17 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 18 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |