Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there . |
| 2 | I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases . |
| 3 | I lost count of time as The Butcher banged away and the girl hung on grimly to my jerking skull . |
| 4 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 5 | I 've no idea , I lost count of time . |
| 6 | ‘ I lost track of time , ’ Faye admitted ruefully . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Tom , I lost track of time , ’ Faye said again . |
| 8 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 9 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 10 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 11 | I spend hours of time with my engineers , briefing , de-briefing , briefing again . |
| 12 | Third , because women 's and men 's lives are organized very differently in our society as a whole , women seem to be more available to provide any assistance which involves input of time and domestic labour . |
| 13 | I have proposed four simple distributional patterns for both marine and terrestrial animals which involve changes in time . |
| 14 | The New Contemporaries exhibitors continued to plot this constellation , using mixed media primarily associated with mutability , with process : substances like water or pastry , hair or wax , sand and vegetables , oil and light and cloth , which imply change over time . |
| 15 | Vision as leadership is a drama which takes place in time . |
| 16 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) When looking at clauses which require compliance with time limits ( eg a time limit for notifying a warranty claim after a defect is discovered in goods supplied under the contract ) the question to ask is whether the time limit has been imposed from a genuine need to protect the other party 's position , or whether it is there to make it difficult , or practically impossible , for the other party to exercise its rights under the clause . |
| 18 | Most empirical economic models involve reactions which take place over time . |
| 19 | ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . ) |
| 20 | The size of the epidemic in five or ten years time has not been estimated with confidence ; the epidemic will be determined by the number of people with HIV infection who develop AIDS over time . |
| 21 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 22 | He also said he knew she took cocaine from time to time . |
| 23 | But we have an officer designated ‘ staff officer ’ who spends 50% of time on training ’ . |
| 24 | We visited Edinburgh from time to time and one evening were invited by the Queen to a dance at Holyrood House . |
| 25 | Er unfortunately one has cases from time to time on girls of this age who set out to entice men . |
| 26 | It is proposed here that the need to represent a spatial support in order to get a mental representation of an event is another such requirement : how can one conceive an event as something taking place in time without also conceiving at least virtually someone or something realizing it ( or undergoing its realization , as in the passive ) ? |
| 27 | She ai n't exactly my girlfriend , but we spend loads of time together , going out and that . |
| 28 | We spend loads of time each day tapping keys . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't worry , we have bags of time . ’ |
| 30 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |