Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubting whether the traffic jam would have cleared by Wednesday , I finally arrived in time to miss my dental appointment and searched my mind for something pleasant to think of as I rejoined the traffic and inched my way back to the cottage . |
| 2 | I now work for Time magazine , they cover world politics and I cover the international end for them . |
| 3 | Yes , I 've got a guy in , well I 've got a couple of people on the shift , and er , the more you give them to do , they just love it , but the thing about it is , I think the mistake that I certainly make from time to time , is the more you give them to do , you 've sort of erm , taken something from somebody else , and then it , it 's trying to keep that erm , trying to keep that more level , and fairness to everybody . |
| 4 | ‘ We surprise clients by recommending them not to proceed from time to time , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 6 | Their shadow images , like our own lives , are seen as merely the surface reflection of an unseen fabric of energy which majestically moves beyond time . |
| 7 | Like spatial position , temporality is an intrinsic property of the object , which always exists in time , and will potentially signify the amount of time elapsed since it was created . |
| 8 | And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't you ever arrive on time ? ’ |
| 10 | And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest . |
| 11 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 12 | We just seemed to time it wrong with the weather . |
| 13 | Except in winter , when heavy snow sometimes delayed us and another engine had to come to the rescue , we generally arrived on time at Parma. just occasionally a tram car went off the rails ; perhaps Camera was overcome by the thrill of speed . |
| 14 | But we usually think of time as hours and minutes and seconds too if we are being very exact . |
| 15 | Apart from that everything else running to time through until the ten o'clock London Kings Cross service out of platform three . |
| 16 | Do they always pay on time or are they like everyone else ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've got me regular suppliers an' they always come on time . |
| 18 | The words of the Spell picked just that moment to surface from the depths of his mind , as they always did in time of crisis . |
| 19 | Again , the songs vary from group to group , but they also evolve over time . |
| 20 | For five and a half hours , competitors in teams of four , battled it out finishing in time for lunch late in the afternoon . |
| 21 | At first he thought it might be the Headmaster but even if he ran to check , he never arrived in time to find out who , or what it was . |