Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | Israeli children eat these pancakes during Hanukkah in December but you can make them at any time of the year . |
| 3 | The highest type of firework last year if it was specified was the sparkler remarkably enough and we would make this point very seriously that parents tend to give children sm very small children sparklers and they must remember tha that these things are fireworks they are dangerous they do get red hot er they must supervise them at all times when they give them sparklers cos they may wave them around they may se set somebody else 's clothing on fire with them they may get the sparks in their eyes if they get too close to them er and one particular danger of course is that they they may get hold of en the hot end when the firework has finally extinguished and they think it 's all finished with . |
| 4 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 5 | Even if someone believes the most secure and pernicious lies , he will not be able to help himself from doubting them at some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Although someone supervises me at all times , I handle all my cases myself . |
| 7 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 8 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 9 | He he said you 're one person I can talk to , you listen to me and I can talk to you and er he did n't want to worry you at that time but for him , he did n't think he was suitable . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't recognise her for some time . |
| 12 | He CALLED twice at the station — only to be sent away with a flea in his ear — and LEFT his name and company address so detectives knew where to find him at all times . |
| 13 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 14 | If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ? |
| 15 | They could have discharged themselves at any time , but they were destitute and the best was done for them that was possible in the circumstances . |
| 16 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 17 | Since a rise in interest rates can cause quite a severe fall in the price of bonds , banks could make a considerable capital loss if they were forced to sell them at such times . |
| 18 | About one-third of pupils have traditionally attended them since that time . |
| 19 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 20 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 21 | This was the last day of these services , and there is talk of reviving them at some time in the future but using modern Sprinter units . |
| 22 | Erm and then you went for a whole month which was , you could do something in that time . |
| 23 | If you had n't met anybody by this time you certainly would now . |
| 24 | As George Orwell noted in 1984 , the fear that the thought-police might monitor everybody at all times was enough to keep Big Brother 's subjects in a state of paralysed terror . |
| 25 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |
| 26 | Michael might come to visit her at any time . |
| 27 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 28 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 30 | Have you , have you seen him since that time when you said to him about coming . |