Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubbed the words off my mouth in time . |
| 2 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 3 | Ellen was sure now that she had him for her own and most likely thought it a fair return for her investment of time and trouble . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , therefore , Water Newton is our clearest ‘ town plan ’ , yet surprisingly little is known about its development through time . |
| 5 | Later he put out some work to one of the five , but the journeymen returned , demanded he take it back and levied a charge of 3 guineas ( £3.15 ) for their loss of time in attending to " this act of justice " . |
| 6 | And twenty minutes past my knocking off time . |
| 7 | Chapter 3 examines the place of public enterprises within the state , the nature of their objectives , the logic of their functioning , including their patterns of industrial relations , and the dynamic of their development over time . |
| 8 | Underlying such forms are the facts of the existence of other people and of their movement through time as well as space . |
| 9 | They found that Darwin W/T station had not been informed of their flight in time to warn Koepang W/T station to be on the air the following morning . |
| 10 | Often someone who wishes to use the toilet may not find it within easy reach or be able to get out of their chair in time . |
| 11 | What about some sort of sticker that she gets that can use the use of her period of time another idea to around . |
| 12 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 13 | Even if a babe and its mother manage to shuffle out of his way in time , the two may be separated and then the pup , while trying to find its way back , may be attacked and badly bitten by other females , irritated at being disturbed . |
| 14 | A permanent legacy of his theory of time is the idea that time and the universe are inseparable . |
| 15 | In thirteenth century Venice , such men would have been flogged and branded on the forehead , while a law of the Hanseatic League in the fifteenth and sixteenth century had provided that any sailor who deserted the master of his ship in time of danger would have had his ears slit ! |
| 16 | St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events , but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time . |
| 17 | Would Nephthys turn into her mother in time ? |
| 18 | Phat escorted them , scowling and flailing their shoulders with his cane from time to time to speed their progress . |
| 19 | Travelling in the TARDIS messed with your sense of time . |
| 20 | ‘ I want an archway built in my garden in time for the wedding of Lina and Pablo next Saturday . |
| 21 | In such a manner individuals , like institutions or sovereigns , are fortified in their passage through time by jubilees symbolized by precious substances held in progressively higher esteem . |
| 22 | interestingly , hearing people seemed to increase in their re-arrangement over time while there was very little difference in BSL . |
| 23 | This conveys ‘ one of the mysterious paradoxes of copulation and procreation … : the overwhelming strength of a moment engenders events whose meaning will become clear only in their result in time ’ . |
| 24 | With the modals , the effect of representing the support in its place in time ( past or non-past ) as receiving the incidence of the potential event is to evoke actualization as dependent on the conditions of possibility , probability , etc. , expressed by the modal . |
| 25 | He was assisted in his work from time to time by Samuel Holmes , a graduate of Magdalene College , Cambridge , who hoped to succeed him , but in fact on 27th July 1683 Timothy Dobson , of Jesus College , Cambridge , was appointed . |
| 26 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 27 | ‘ Moore , a fit powerful and experienced hooker , just could n't squeeze in his head in time . |
| 28 | If the break-clause is of this kind , the party entitled to break may equally need flexibility in his choice of time at which to exercise the power . |
| 29 | Joseph turned in his saddle in time to see a score of shuffling gray humps slip silently into the distant trees . |
| 30 | McMillan was an extremely hard worker but a certain fluidity in his perception of time made him sometimes an unpredictable colleague . |