Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you need to put pressure on someone , reminding them of time limits can increase their stress level and make them capitulate sooner rather than later . |
| 2 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |
| 3 | Huey and I watch as she cuddles the microphone , wrapping her mouth round it , almost swallowing it at times . |
| 4 | Scathach pushed her away , turning her in time to deflect the blow from another raider . |
| 5 | Clara could feel her friendly spirit choking her at times ; she had affection in her , and nowhere to spend it . |
| 6 | It 's no great problem but I 'm not getting it on time . |
| 7 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 8 | I could n't make up my mind about him , regarding him at times as some grotesque theatrical maniac , at other times as no more than a pleasant , if somewhat mysterious , travelling companion . |
| 9 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 10 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 11 | It did not occur to the Jones that , for example , they were now insisting unswervingly on an 8pm bedtime , and that now Olwyn was being rewarded ( the bedtime story ) for making it on time . |
| 12 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 13 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 14 | Few stations of the first generation survived the vast increase of railway traffic , but some did and they are well worth seeing Railways added a vast amount of detail to the English landscape , besides manipulating it at times on a large scale . |
| 15 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |
| 16 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 17 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 18 | She was aware of those sapphire-hued eyes following her from time to time , resting on her , evaluating her . |