Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if surfers could no longer make those connections through space , they made them through time . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this … three times before he went , Michael asked me for time to go up to London and said he was having problems with his visa . |
| 3 | They could n't ‘ ave caught him in time . |
| 4 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 5 | She caught it in time , and had them dwindle a little . |
| 6 | We caught it in time . |
| 7 | I think it was alright , I think we stopped it in time did n't we ? |
| 8 | And leved he in time of blody kinges |
| 9 | ‘ What a very , very good thing you stopped us in time ! ’ she said to Brenda . |
| 10 | To avoid the 1803 rates , employers hired a number of skilled men to do the most expensive work ( known in the trade as the " fat " ) and paid them by time or stab ( establishment ) rates . |
| 11 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 12 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 13 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 14 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 15 | We made it on time — just — thanks to our car phones . |
| 16 | Luckily , I made it in time . |
| 17 | ‘ And your brother made it in time for the birth ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I hope Big Ben and the convoy made it in time . ’ |
| 19 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 20 | We did occasionally get the flies blowing them like , you know , but as long as you get it , got it in time and cut it down and cut it up straight away it was all right like . |
| 21 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 22 | This was a development which also disseminated throughout northern England the idiosyncratic customs of the clergy of the Celtic regions of the British Isles which the Church of Rome , as it comprehended them over time , came increasingly to view as schismatic — not simply a different , more archaic method of calculating the date of Easter ( which Iona retained long after other Irish communities had abandoned it ) , but a whole range of differences in ritual practice and , in the absence of an established ecclesiastical hierarchy of bishops and archbishops , a barely recognizable ecclesiastical order . |
| 23 | He rocked her in time to the music , tugging sleepily at the pearls about her throat . |
| 24 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 25 | Nigel or I , sometimes both , cooked , and even friends tackled it from time to time . |