Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that in no time she was forced indoors by huge raindrops that appeared to have come from nowhere . |
| 2 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Stevens , I may not have been a housekeeper for long , but I would say that in the time I have been , my abilities have attracted some very generous remarks . ’ |
| 4 | That brought Nottingham within range and in no time they produced a broadside which knocked Northampton sideways . |
| 5 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
| 6 | He heads north , and in no time we 're outside Denice 's impressive town house in St John 's Wood . |
| 7 | ‘ And my mother 's on my side , and will talk my uncle round to her way of thinking , and in no time I shall be betrothed to Isabel . |
| 8 | Then asked the name of her hotel , and in no time he was pulling up outside it , and Fabia knew that one of the most pleasant interludes of her life except for the ‘ alternator ’ trauma that went with it — was over . |
| 9 | One of the guerrillas invites him to drink wine , and in no time he is completely drunk , and has told them that some lorries loaded with ammunition are coming up the road , to help in the campaign to wipe out the guerrillas . |
| 10 | ‘ The number of times we 've made it up with her after falling out because of her trouble making , and in no time she 's been at it again . |
| 11 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 12 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |
| 13 | And in the time it 's taken you to read this , it 's sold out . |
| 14 | There will be a few overcast or windless days when the batteries will not be adequately recharged and a traditional generator will have to be called upon , but in the time they are charging , wind generators and solar panels will easily pay for themselves in saved fuel costs . |
| 15 | Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment . |
| 16 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 17 | But in the time it takes these children to ask for a drink of water an accomplice has slipped in the back and helped himself . |