Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] that time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Midshipman Jack Rogers , trying to identify a distant ship , hopes it may be a Frenchman and declares ‘ the French will never like the English till they have taught us to eat frogs , and have thrashed us on a second field of Waterloo , and I hope that time may never come ’ , his friend Alick Murray defends French courage in war and laughs at Jack 's belligerence . |
| 2 | I suspect that time and a lot more work will tell . |
| 3 | I stated that time should be specifically assigned during each visit to allow an opportunity for Mrs Allen to voice her feelings and fears . |
| 4 | I discovered that time was money and threw myself into cleaning offices , restaurants and hospitals . |
| 5 | Then I remember that time when the tent blew down in the snowstorm and his sleeping bag went in the slush . |
| 6 | I feel that time favours Dalglish 's chances of joining Arthur Rowe ( Spurs ) , Sir Alf Ramsey ( Ipswich ) and Clough as the only post-war managers to follow promotion with the League title . |
| 7 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |
| 8 | Some of her happiest hours were passed in making these costumes and she found that time flew by — it seemed she had barely started before her mother was calling for her to have her bath and go to bed . |
| 9 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ says Phil , ‘ do you remember that time when we were undergraduates , and we hitch-hiked to Rome ? ’ |
| 11 | And somehow you know that time has gone |
| 12 | ‘ Then you know that time is of the utmost importance ? ’ he continued . |
| 13 | If , however , you find that time has run short for the last answer , the best course is to reduce the answer to bare note form , using as many key headings as possible and abbreviating freely . |
| 14 | At thirty-seven she could only say for sure who she was not and she felt that time was running out . |
| 15 | 16 ) he argued that time can have no existence unless things are actually happening , and in his Confessions ( xi . |
| 16 | He argued that time and motion must be more carefully distinguished from one another than they were by Aristotle . |
| 17 | It shows that time is not a universal quantity which exists on its own , separate from space . |
| 18 | It appears that time can be extended under Ord 3 , r5 . |
| 19 | He knew that time was ticking away remorselessly , though less than half a minute had passed . |
| 20 | But de Gaulle held firm because he knew that time was working in his favour . |
| 21 | He felt that time was slipping through his fingers . |
| 22 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |
| 23 | Riding beside them , he explained that time was of the essence if their father 's instructions in respect of the protectorship were to be carried out . |