Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish .
2 I send my soul through time and space to greet you .
3 It was full of leather and PVC-clothed young people , banging their heads in time to the music .
4 Andy Payton and Stuart Slater showed , for example , that they may now have come to terms with the tribal ritual that is entitled to pass their understanding until time and circumstances dictate that they become as wound up as the rest .
5 I congratulate the British farming industry on keeping its temper at times when it could easily have boiled over and reciprocated .
6 I agree that it would if I constantly compared her with my current partner , or wistfully mentioned her name from time to time .
7 During this period contractors frequently made payments in cash and individual sub-contractors changed their names from time to time to avoid detection by Inland Revenue inspectors .
8 Some congregations changed their allegiance over time .
9 Again if you think about how many people actually provide their goods on time to their customers ninety five percent of the time or provide the goods and provide them on time that record is their record is very good .
10 He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time .
11 Holm , 24 , who reached the last 16 at Wimbledon last year before losing to Stefan Edberg in four sets , also trailed 5–4 in the second set but found his range in time to break New Zealander Steven in the 11th game to level the match .
12 In 1334 he was captured and ransomed by the Scots , gaining his freedom in time to fight in Edward III 's major Scottish campaign of 1335 ; but thereafter he shared in the general decline of English fortunes and interest in Scotland .
13 There was something about this huge expanse of rugged land that changed his sense of time .
14 Today , we live in an increasingly artificial environment , and are much less aware of the natural cycles on which we base our system of time .
15 ‘ Things slip our minds with time .
16 So erm right now I think we might as well erm allow things to draw naturally to a close there so um let's see erm this gives you a few minutes to catch your breath in time for video , for those of you who 're erm intending to watch it .
17 Barclays has run into a sequence of big borrowers who can not service their debts on time and can not sell their assets to repay the debts .
18 ‘ I have made arrangements with certain people in the neighbourhood — a pastor , a doctor , business people , a local historian and so on — to receive my students from time to time and talk about their work .
19 Time will tell , and I put my trust in time , absolutely .
20 They seem neither to have conceptualized their experience of time nor formed an abstract idea of history .
21 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 .
22 Many players totally ignore the triplet subdivision approach , and end up developing their sense of time only in relation to eighths and sixteenth grooves .
23 Gloria was busy tapping her feet in time to the music .
24 He has pock-marked skin which has tempered its savagery with time and sun .
25 She were on about Graham , she 's seen him loads of times this week .
26 There was no point in frightening his grandmother before time .
27 The IEE has tried to negotiate with Thomson , offering help with writing and publishing his biography in time for the fiftieth anniversary of Blumlein 's death in June 1992 .
28 It is possible to argue that he wrote in the proportion to which each location claimed or received his spans of time and attention — and as he spent more than twice the length of time out on the islands as he did getting there , the greater part of his book addresses the west .
29 they 're gon na make you 're gon na spend nearly a fiver sending all that out to people and really we should be encouraging people to be members and not to just give us money from time to time .
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