Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There was something about this huge expanse of rugged land that changed his sense of time . |
| 5 | There was no point in frightening his grandmother before time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He will not be free to indulge in his hobbies of gardening , fishing , photography and some gentle camping but promised to go and see his friends from time to time . |
| 9 | Her poor father might still like his lunch on time , even though he could no longer hold a fork and had to be helped to eat . |
| 10 | Progressing slowly , seeming older by years than he had seemed on this beach the day before , more bent and huddled , the Commander shook his head in time to the steps he took . |
| 11 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 12 | She glimpsed a movement behind him , and he saw her look , turning his head in time to meet a blow . |
| 13 | The aircraft was just about to touch down when the pilot found himself in unfamiliar surroundings and opened his throttle in time for his wheels to clear the cliff-edge at the end of the runway . |
| 14 | Papa ever held Uncle Richard in high esteem — entrusting the protection of the realm to him , having him lead his armies in times of war . |
| 15 | Thank heavens she 'd escaped his clutches in time . |
| 16 | Culley went back to the street , passed the front of the house , then turned and retraced his steps in time to see the car pull out of the cul-de-sac and move away from him . |
| 17 | ‘ Even the arrogant swine Luke Denner needs to put his case from time to time ! ’ |
| 18 | Unlike Ellen , though , he always returned his books on time , so the librarians put up with him . |
| 19 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 20 | He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole . |
| 21 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 22 | Dexter tapped his feet in time to the music and eyed a handsome youth leaning by himself against the bar . |
| 23 | Can they reach his brain in time , obliterate the clot , and learn the secrets the man holds ? |
| 24 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 25 | Suddenly , he jumped high in the air , referee Steve Griffith signalled that the kick was good , blew his whistle for time and that was that . |
| 26 | WILLIAMS ) came in at a run from the " Coriolanus " matin e e , still in his toga , and just made his position in time . ] |
| 27 | A gangling youth with personal stereo and the thickest-soled baseball boots Harry had ever seen fell into the adjacent seat and began slapping his knee in time to the music only he could hear . |
| 28 | Nevertheless we are told that he kept tablets or notebooks under his pillow , and would practise his letters from time to time . |
| 29 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 30 | He had a good strong voice and he whistled the instrumental parts , shaking his head in time . |