Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 2 | Richard Corliss in Time magazine recognised that , ‘ The most reactionary middle-American could sit back comfortably and think that , if marrying a pretty girl is all my subversive son wants , maybe the kid is n't so bad after all . ’ |
| 3 | A list of the network members , who represent 28 countries principally engaged in cross-border M&A activities , is circulated by Richard Agutter from time to time . |
| 4 | But manager Ron Atkinson is hoping to complete the £2.25million signing of Liverpool striker Dean Saunders in time for Sunday 's televised game at Leeds — just 24 hours before Cyrille Regis goes into hospital for an Achilles tendon injury . |
| 5 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 6 | Loretta would arrive at her friend 's house in Woodstock Road in time for supper , and the whole evening would be free for a chat . |
| 7 | That meeting ordered a new working group to try to reconcile the plan with the more cautious programme of Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov in time for the opening of a crucial debate in the USSR Supreme Soviet on Sept. 10 . |
| 8 | ‘ Jeff Koons has provided one last pathetic gasp of the sort of self-promoting hype and sensationalism that characterised the worst of the '80s , ’ raged Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times , while Robert Hughes of Time called Koons ‘ the starry-eyed opportunist par excellence ’ . |
| 9 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 10 | Would Joseph Wright in time become a Mr Peniket , or Johnny Pyke a Commander Abigail , or Jennifer Droppy a Miss Poraway ? |
| 11 | Oh Dave , my journey , running about early in the morning to leave everything tidy for the chaps , came out without anything inside their tum , provided that I could have coffee on the , in the buffet car on the train from Stow Market , no hot drinks madam , we have n't got enough power in the batteries , I thought well you know it 's all , we got to Liverpool Street on time |
| 12 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 13 | I have to be back at Les Châtaigniers in time to collect my friend . |
| 14 | I drove to the Birmingham Hippodrome in time for the 11 o'clock production meeting with the contestants . |
| 15 | We were almost into November now and I did n't need to be an expert navigator to work out from the charts , and the Admiralty Pilot lying open on the chart table , that to be into the south of the Weddell Sea in time to take maximum advantage of the summer loosening of the pack we would need to be away not later than end-November . |
| 16 | She knew that the chances of reaching it , giving the alarm , and getting men and equipment back and across the heath to Scawby Marsh in time to save Angela 's pony before he sank to his death in the marsh were very slight , but she must try . |
| 17 | I think about Luiza Alves from time to time . |
| 18 | From Cape Town to Charing Cross , via Canberra was the route taken by Ellerman & Bucknall Services Manager , Brian Speck to get to the London Marathon on time . |