Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 2 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 4 | I always make sure I get back in time for tea . ’ |
| 5 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that this was the main reason why I delayed accepting a promotion post until it was too late and I ran out of time . |
| 7 | I wrote off to Time Out and in early February 1981 found myself surrounded by eight or nine other blind socialists discussing the formation of the Alternative Talking Newspapers Collective . |
| 8 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 9 | he believes cumulative stress which builds up over time , should be classified as an industrial injury for which people can claim compensation . |
| 10 | Thus , negotiations will include representations and " other dealings " which extend back in time to when the debtor or hirer reads an advertisement inserted by the negotiator . |
| 11 | Nowadays it is thought that not much new water is generated by volcanoes or by hot springs and vapours , which speeded up in time through land-ocean changes and continental drift ; the vast majority of this is today believed to be recycled hydrospheric water . |
| 12 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 13 | And then there are special times ; when planning a family : as an expectant or nursing mother ; when it 's that time of the month ; or simply when you run out of time to eat properly . |
| 14 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 15 | Just that I think Susanna wants to spanner to work , her bike 's not here otherwise I 'd have if she gets back in time , fair enough . |
| 16 | ‘ Put me down , you lecherous old goat ! ’ she said with a laugh , and , pushing him away , she straightend up in time to see That Man emerge from Jim 's old office with Ben Bradshaw , the senior registrar . |
| 17 | The precarious nature of the human effort to balance is steadied by the strength of the love of God which itself leapt down into time to show it could be done . |
| 18 | THERE will be no reward for poll tax payers in Middlesbrough who pay up on time . |
| 19 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 20 | This is a simply stunning hotel where you step back in time . |
| 21 | Step into the Hotel Monna Lisa and you step back in time . |
| 22 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 23 | It then became conceivable that time might simply not be defined before a certain point ; as one goes back in time , one might come to an insurmountable barrier , a singularity , beyond which one could not go . |
| 24 | Er , but if we run out of time and I find we have n't we we we ca n't fit it all in I 'd like you all to attempt to do this for yourselves after er , the lecture is over . |
| 25 | Let's have a look at some of the closing questions , erm , before we we run out of time and the teas ready . |
| 26 | You do n't give a damn about whether we get back in time for the meeting . ’ |
| 27 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |
| 28 | As we droned back in time from one lost place to another , I fondly remembered what had previously seemed by bad travel stories . |
| 29 | This process would be repeated until we ran out of time , cards or interest in what we were doing . |
| 30 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |