Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training . |
| 2 | ‘ Some say I 'm a dour type of person , and maybe I am at times , but nothing means more to me than winning . |
| 3 | But would I be in time ? |
| 4 | I was on time but kept waiting for a few minutes so that the assembled Health Authority Chairmen and administrators could pass a motion condemning the Government 's offer as divisive . |
| 5 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 6 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm terribly glad I was in time to stop you , Miss Clinton , ’ Jenny said earnestly . |
| 8 | You are at times an exceptionally fiery-headed young woman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How d' you do , Mr Bodenland , you are in time to listen to a little revision ! ’ |
| 10 | If it is not an emergency question , you are in time Mr with your question , in case anyone thinks that it was an emergency question was put down |
| 11 | ‘ You 're on time , ’ he said , sitting in the chair opposite her , and calling the garçon across to order a drink . |
| 12 | You 're on time . |
| 13 | You 're on time at the copper bottom . |
| 14 | She is beyond time , and yet she is giving birth to time itself At the moment of birth , her baby is the very youngest member of the human race , its star of hope and its future . |
| 15 | That relaxed , even jokey , presence we offer you is at times a front for blind panic . |
| 16 | She was in time to see the recovery of one of the young gentlemen who had begun to torment her on that night until Colonel Hope had silenced him . |
| 17 | But she had already felt the tremor of unstable ground beneath her feet and , throwing herself back from the danger zone , she was in time to prevent herself falling into the stream . |
| 18 | Leaning forward , she was in time to see a lethal-looking sports car nose its way across the cobbles . |
| 19 | We 're into time added on by . |
| 20 | We 're on time . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We 're in time , ’ said Cobalt . |
| 22 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 23 | We ran into some bad weather on the way , with heavy rain followed by thick fog , which was frustrating because we were at times up near the permanent snowline , and had occasional glimpses of birds like rough-legged buzzard , with Lapland bunting and red-throated pipits by the roadside . |
| 24 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 25 | This is important in the treatment of self-poisoning patients because , as has already been noted , they are at times regarded with hostility by hospital staff ( p. 22 ) , and by relatives and friends ( p. 23 ) . |
| 26 | The major differences between the two positions — and they are at times crudely drawn — focus on : |
| 27 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 28 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 29 | Picture yourself if you will as a small child who under great danger to yourself gives all to help your parents when they are in time of peril and in return you get a slap in the face . |
| 30 | She looked at her watch ; they were on time . |