Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 2 | You 're not above mentioning your height , even bragging about it at times , saying you 're as good as any two men twice your size . |
| 3 | Can staff arrange for others to work for them at times of crisis ? |
| 4 | Everyone , I think , is vulnerable to the guest , or guests that descend upon you from time to time . |
| 5 | We must find the eternal friend that has been bidden within us throughout time and which is the profound mystery of man . |
| 6 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 7 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 8 | Before the darkness came , you might have come across him at times pushing a pramful of camping equipment , perhaps with a grandson straggling at his side , on some remote road through Eigiau , Abergeirw or Pennant Lliw . |
| 9 | Yet Lin does feel constrained by what at times seems to be the overriding imperative of producing a total length of 60 to 75 minutes . |
| 10 | No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll be busy tomorrow and besides , I like things done with plenty of time to spare . ’ |
| 12 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 13 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 14 | Both tasks require courage of a high order , imagination , and the ability to lead people , but the last is very much easier when plainly you are advancing , and your organization is on a winning streak , than when you are trying to hold the team together while struggling against what at times appear to be nearly impossible odds . |
| 15 | As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument . |
| 16 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 17 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 18 | Alain was greatly distressed by his death , but , ’ she hesitated for a moment before continuing , ‘ he would have got over it in time . |
| 19 | are like that , but pillows have your head sweating on 'em at times are n't we ? |
| 20 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |
| 21 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 22 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't know what to do with yourself at times it 's such a strain . ’ |
| 24 | I think the clergy wonder what to do with him at times . |
| 25 | You never get to them on time . |
| 26 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 27 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 28 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 29 | The train was stopped in plenty of time and a few VIP and press party on board were even aware of the drama outside . |
| 30 | Arrived with plenty of time to stock up with sweets , drinks and popcorn ( and no-one was sick ) and to climb umpteen stairs to our seats in the heavens . |