Example sentences of "[conj] in the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And in the time it 's taken you to read this , it 's sold out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But in the time it takes me to do this , the incoming train has reached the other end of the station platform . |
| 8 | 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 . |