Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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1 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
2 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
3 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
4 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
5 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
6 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
7 | I think at your time of life you should . |
8 | I do n't look as if I come from your time , for Christ 's sake ! |
9 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
10 | Lindsay placed the central emphasis on " culture " , understood as " the essential system of ideas governing the world and man , which belong to our time " . |
11 | There was even a cardboard birthday cake about ten feet across which a couple of girls could leap out of if somebody paid for their time and the hire of a van . |
12 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
13 | ‘ Is this how you put in your time now ? ’ said Cowley . |
14 | May we respect those who give of their time , their friendship and their talents rather than those who strive always to gain more for themselves Amen |
15 | I just want to let you know that chief among my criticisms of this report , it is is that it is a total insult to all of you , who give of your time freely to a unique cause to which we all belong . |
16 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
17 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
18 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
19 | Thanks were also extended to all the club members who gave of their time and hard graft to ensure that fun was had by all . |
20 | When it came slightly up-breeze of Tallis she noticed the appalling stench that emanated from its form : marsh gas and the smell of death which she remembered from her time in the mortuary house . |
21 | Over the next week ( assuming it to be typical ) keep a note of exactly what you do with your time each day . |
22 | ‘ And always the possibility he was killed because of something to do with his time in the secret service . ’ |
23 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
24 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
25 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
26 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
27 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
28 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
29 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |
30 | The pretence that it exists in your time and my time . |