Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 2 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 3 | It must cost them more in time in getting that penny out you know |
| 4 | The quality of product delivered by BR management is experienced daily by the many thousands who travel to and from Waterloo , where the indicator boards are frequently inactive at peak travel time in the evening , and only the desultory , forlorn and uncertain voices of junior staff is available to advise hapless passengers over the tannoy when and where they might expect to find an uncancelled train to get them home on time — if they are lucky — and to deliver an occasional apology . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but will it get me home in time to see Coronation Street tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | or write you down as time scale , you 'd presumably talking about planning up to six weeks perhaps before she trots around . |
| 7 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
| 8 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 9 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 10 | Sorry I 've got to throw you out on time , but I 've got another appointment at four . |
| 11 | Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report . |
| 12 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 13 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you had n't got me out in time ? ’ |
| 16 | It is particularly the case with men that they slowly over time increase their knowledge and mastery over self . |
| 17 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 18 | They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’ |
| 19 | He groaned and stumbled forward , almost falling against the tiled floor , but one of his courtiers caught him just in time . |
| 20 | I found her just in time . |
| 21 | She took a shaky breath and reached for the coffee-pot , an invisible shell of protective self-defence closing around her just in time . |
| 22 | A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see . |
| 23 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 24 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 25 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 26 | Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie … |
| 27 | The ego ideal is replaced in hypnosis by the primal father , in the primal horde and all groups in which these emotions are used for keeping it together over time . |
| 28 | Just hand it in on time . |
| 29 | Most of the away fans would make it down in time for the game and little else . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah nearly sobered up on Boxing Day , but ah caught it just in time , ’ a doleful customer told her . |