Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend , who has been courteous and kind in meeting delegations led by me and by other hon. Members to discuss the problem , has pointed out from time to time that the scheme is the responsibility of the county council . |
| 2 | And you always seem to arrive back in time for supper . ’ |
| 3 | And he had been perfectly justified , he assured himself smugly , in cancelling their holiday plans at once — she had never been going to get back on time . |
| 4 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 5 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 6 | I get chatted up from time to time , though if you have a small child — ’ she glanced through the mirror at Thomas ‘ — not too many men want to become involved . |
| 7 | In Rome a visitor can stand in front of a Baroque church , but a few minutes later , having walked only a short distance , may have plunged back in time to Antiquity . |
| 8 | I know now I 'd never have caught up in time in my old car . |
| 9 | If you can not find such a deed , you have to keep going back in time until one is located . |
| 10 | The end came rather suddenly , so I could n't have got back in time to see her , but I flew over as soon as I was free , to see what had to be done . |
| 11 | It was because Mrs Strawson was five minutes late — behaviour he made no demur at , though he would have refused to see a National Health patient who failed to turn up on time — that he had picked up the Standard and seen that paragraph . |
| 12 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 13 | Miss Calder and Mr. Persaud will therefore not be without remedy if they wish to pursue the avenue of appeal to the Court of Appeal and if they can persuade that court to grant them leave to appeal out of time against the relevant decision of the Visitors . |
| 14 | I do realize out of time this so erm I 'd like to just g erm go through the profit loss for one year quite quickly . |
| 15 | ‘ We did not want to have poorer people paying slightly extra to subsidise those wealthier individuals who can afford to pay up on time , ’ said council leader Michael Carr . |
| 16 | Yes , we had stumbled back in time all right , to those days of portion control when catering managers were gods , working miracles of loaves and fishes on ever smaller plates filled with dry greenery and tomatoes cut like starfish . |
| 17 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 18 | He was told to imagine that he had travelled back in time to the afternoon of the abduction and was watching the events unfold on a television documentary . |
| 19 | Wallace saw the great northern continents of Eurasia and North America as the chief focus of progressive evolution from which higher types had radiated out from time to time . |
| 20 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 21 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |
| 22 | okay well I think we 'll er , we 'll probably have to stop this as we 've run out of time , let me , let me ask the people here one final question , are you in love right now ? , button one for yes and button two for no my goodness , sixty two people are rushing home , the other thirty eight |
| 23 | On which note we have to leave it , I 'm really sorry because we 've run out of time . |
| 24 | Okay , erm on this sheet , I do n't think , well we wo n't go through it now because we 've run out of time . |
| 25 | I felt that I had stepped back in time to share in the 400 year old ceremony in this charming village . |
| 26 | It was as if Jack had stepped back in time to the scene of an earlier age . |
| 27 | It now has one production controller and everything does go out on time , according to Mr Peters ' research . |
| 28 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 29 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |