Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there . |
| 2 | I receive representations from time to time about various aspects of the home improvement grants scheme and its operation ; in the main those concern individual cases . |
| 3 | I lost count of time as The Butcher banged away and the girl hung on grimly to my jerking skull . |
| 4 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 5 | I 've no idea , I lost count of time . |
| 6 | ‘ I lost track of time , ’ Faye admitted ruefully . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , Tom , I lost track of time , ’ Faye said again . |
| 8 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 9 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 10 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 11 | I spend hours of time with my engineers , briefing , de-briefing , briefing again . |
| 12 | He also said he knew she took cocaine from time to time . |
| 13 | We visited Edinburgh from time to time and one evening were invited by the Queen to a dance at Holyrood House . |
| 14 | She ai n't exactly my girlfriend , but we spend loads of time together , going out and that . |
| 15 | We spend loads of time each day tapping keys . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , we have bags of time . ’ |
| 17 | Living out here is inclined to make me lose count of time . ’ |
| 18 | Because it frees performance from time , assembling it bit by bit , it encourages demystified production : ‘ Tape runs forwards , backwards and at many speeds . |
| 19 | After Celtic he spent periods of time with San Jose Earthquakes and Elgin City , and watched his hair and his money gradually disappear . |
| 20 | Soon , he lost track of time and it was after what he judged to be many days , he was heartened to hear , occasionally , the far-off sound of metal on rock as his friends tried to clear a way through to him . |
| 21 | The minister said he felt disorientated , the blinds were drawn , and he lost track of time . |
| 22 | Walking and walking until he lost track of time , he felt that this was the entire world , it was comprised of nothing else , just the infinite earth and infinite sky . |
| 23 | ‘ The lil ol boy turned up a bit quick : he come jus in time to hev a slice of his mother 's wedding cake . ’ |
| 24 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |
| 25 | For instance , the regress generated by the remark that there is a point between every pair of points may be virtuous , even when we take it to concern points in time rather than in space . |