Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be at my prie-dieu in time for Mass , Mother . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I want an archway built in my garden in time for the wedding of Lina and Pablo next Saturday . |
| 3 | The reasons are the same ; the valleyside torrents are checked when they reach the main valley floor and aggradation takes place , the fan shape usually resulting from the stream shifting its course from time to time . |
| 4 | Indeed , all that remains today of the old inherent rights are the power to control the method of carrying out the functions which Parliament from time to time give to the local authorities and the power to make rules as to the conduct of the meetings of the local authority . |
| 5 | All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other . |
| 6 | Beneath them , in France , there existed an ordered and fairly hierarchical structure which saw to the day-to-day defence of the country , from those with wide territorial jurisdictions to those who might be sent to a particular area , town or castle to organise its defence in time of crisis . |
| 7 | Jeff does a bit of work on their boat from time to time . |
| 8 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 9 | Later he put out some work to one of the five , but the journeymen returned , demanded he take it back and levied a charge of 3 guineas ( £3.15 ) for their loss of time in attending to " this act of justice " . |
| 10 | The Council began its work at time of escalating violence . |
| 11 | In such a manner individuals , like institutions or sovereigns , are fortified in their passage through time by jubilees symbolized by precious substances held in progressively higher esteem . |
| 12 | For one thing , her subject was in itself appealing to most of the girls , or at least intermittently so ; they enjoyed watching crystals grow , and weighing small things on small scales , and making little bits of sodium whizz round saucers of Water , so they quite voluntarily offered her their attention from time to time . |
| 13 | A stoical metronome , she moves only to brush a hand across her brow from time to time . |
| 14 | What is now holding sway in the super-ego is , as it were , a pure culture of the death instincts , and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death , if the latter does not fend off its tyrant in time by the change round into mania . |
| 15 | The vigour , sometimes amounting to brutality , with which she utilized her seapower in time of war , by wholesale interference with neutral shipping carrying contraband or trading with her enemies , did much to increase the hostility with which she was now widely regarded . |
| 16 | She had spent her share of time in caves digging for archaeological pieces , and realized that she was probably too deep underground to feel a breeze from outside . |
| 17 | Kelly managed to turn her head in time for his kiss to miss its target on her lips . |
| 18 | Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears . |
| 19 | I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time . |
| 20 | With support from the Royal Institute of Public Administration and the Society of Local Authority Chief EXecutives in planning and execution , the research studies the genesis of the role , its development over time in response in different and changing environments , its present status , problems and fitness to needs , the characteristics of its occupants , and directions in which the local government executive function might most aptly develop to meet postulated future needs of local communities and environmental change . |
| 21 | FIMBRA was entitled at its discretion from time to time to make spot checks on companies subject to its regulatory umbrella and therefore the details of the businesses carried out by the company might at any time have become known to it . |
| 22 | Yes , that 's one of the blessing of people not parking so much down the road now , they do n't empty out their ashtrays and their junk from time to time . |
| 23 | Over the years , although never establishing a close friendship with the Profumos , I have had an admiring acquaintance with both of them and am happy to see that their marriage was not ruined by this solitary episode and distressed indeed by its revival from time to time by creatures animated solely by greed . |
| 24 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 25 | This is most graphically illustrated by their co-operation in time of war , and despite Marxist faith in the common interests of the proletariat of all nations , time and again national loyalties have proved stronger than those of class . |
| 26 | The constant disputes as to its use in time of scarcity were regulated by a communal organization ; the most famous was the Water Tribunal of Valencia , which gave its verbal judgements , never contested , in an open-air court outside the cathedral . |
| 27 | She gave me Zdenka 's German address and asked if I could at least write to her daughter from time to time to keep her spirits up . |
| 28 | Most interesting , perhaps , is the extent to which attention to its organization of time around interruption and the consequent segmentation of its narrative might place televised fictional genres or subgenres in a fairly continuous line of popular novelistic forms for which the feature film represents a break rather than an exemplary object . |
| 29 | People were buying her drinks ; she was lifting her glass in time with the others , banging on the tables like they did . |
| 30 | It has also to be recognized that all owners may need to make alterations and improvements to their property from time to time . |