Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 2 | There was no reference to the key educational issue in the Queen 's speech , and Michael Stewart ( the new Secretary of State ) was obviously playing for time : ‘ I would rather wait a bit for a good comprehensive system than try to push a sham version in its place . ’ |
| 3 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 4 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 5 | A third possibility , at first unusual but slowly growing with time , was retirement in the modern sense , on a pension . |
| 6 | The technique is therefore very powerful in the examination of systems that are chemically inhomogeneous , or even varying with time . |
| 7 | Well I was out there watering at time scares was on and I had this letter and planes did come over and I laid me ho hosepipe down , I mean you know so he would n't be able |
| 8 | Consistently departing on time in a multi-sector , tightly scheduled environment requires considerable concentration of effort by the pilots , but also teamwork from the engineers and ground handlers . |
| 9 | For the previous ten months London and provincial cities had been bombed night after night ( on 10 May , three thousand Londoners were killed in the raids ) ; although the worst of the blitz was now over , no one knew it then , and at this perilous juncture in the war Eliot had been anxiously writing against time . |
| 10 | On this basis , the utility reduction has been felt not when the real resources are used buy in the future when interest payment and repayments are made , i.e. there has been forward shifting in time . |
| 11 | Apart from that everything else running to time through until the ten o'clock London Kings Cross service out of platform three . |
| 12 | Neither flowing with time ( materialism ) , nor denying time ( romanticism ) . |