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Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Keen Hunter defends his Abbaye crown and the rain has come in time for John Gosden 's flier .
2	Now if our assets if by promoting the right to buy , by having capital receipts we seem to have a large balance building up , there is the distinct risk given the sort of policies that this government has pursued over time of a we will be running a risk there , we do n't know what they 're going to do , you do n't know what they 're going to do .
3	Given that public expenditure has grown over time in the UK , how do we compare with other countries ?
4	Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas .
5	The discovery in the quarries of pre-historic footprints of dinosaurs — iguanodon or megalosaurus — has occurred from time to time , notably in 1963 when samples were removed to the British Museum , and again in 1980 when over 30 footprints were uncovered at Townsend during building work .
6	The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do .
7	The committee has asked from time to time , that I keep it updated with er European legislation , in so far as it affects employments matters , and this I 've intended to do in Paper K. There are two Appendix .
8	A London girl whose father had died lived at times in the next street with her grandmother , moving between the two homes .
9	I could n't understand how these moments had become frozen in time like that .
10	The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent .
11	Touring with them against the top countries , ‘ not hiding , getting thrashed from time to time , but facing the top teams , learning all the time , and accepting that if we 're going to stay as a competitive group we 've got to be as far ahead of the others as possible ’ .
12	Had the player not been defied by a remarkable save by Kopke , Ferguson 's value would have soared in time for the day when Dundee United are finally made the offer they can not refuse .
13	If he could have looked through time at his late 1980s counterpart , would he have been scornful of his sunglasses , his insignia of rank , his fat-cat complacent air ?
14	Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime .
15	There are three bedrooms for visitors all with private bathrooms and individual character — one has an iron-framed antique rose-painted four-poster bed with lace hangings and a Victorian screen , another has oak beams and a closet ( now a shower ) where priests are reputed to have hidden during times of persecution .
16	She sighed with satisfaction , the job was going to get done on time after all and that , she promised herself , was only the beginning .
17	If I knew where it was , do you think I 'd get blown up time after time . ’
18	Yet the numbers of women choosing not to marry receded in times of rising real wages , and the same conditions lowered the average age at marriage Hence , it is wise to remember that many women remained unmarried only because they did not have the means to start a new household with a husband .
19	Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting .
20	The debate about whether unemployment , poverty and deprivation are causally related to crime is perhaps less interesting than the observation which we discussed more fully elsewhere that crime , and in particular , street crime , becomes highlighted during times of economic crisis .
21	At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled .
22	It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself .
23	Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system .
24	The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern .
25	Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier .
26	As to the first question it is clear that views as to the availability and scope of certiorari together with its actual use have varied from time to time .
27	I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience .
28	In addition , in some systems which have operated from time to time in the UK and elsewhere , there is a procedure whereby people are asked attitude questions about the product before the show and after it , and given the opportunity to select the test product ( from a list ) as a prize or gift .
29	I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am !
30	On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances .