Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 2 | And , as I hope to demonstrate from time to time in later chapters , it is as legitimate to utilize Lévi-Straussian notions where these seem appropriate and fruitful as it is to derive inspiration from Freud — without necessarily being a dogmatic , doctrinaire Freudian . |
| 3 | the , you know to cool off what I do know before time , I woke up er phew the you know |
| 4 | I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful . |
| 5 | I am convinced that zander often shoal up or gather in great numbers when they are not hunting and to come across one of these occurrences as I have done from time to time is an unbelievably exciting experience . |
| 6 | I have thought from time to time that I would like to write and let you know how much those lessons meant to me — and now I am ! |
| 7 | On the other hand , I have needed from time to time to provide a certain amount of background , because the progress of a friendship can not be traced otherwise than by describing attendant circumstances . |
| 8 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 9 | danger of sort of like if you 've got ta time like yeah sort of thing somebody else questions ten minutes . |
| 10 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 11 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 12 | She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep . |
| 13 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 14 | She had learned to time it so as not to hear the tail end of the terrible Neighbours music which , no matter how much you hated it , was a tune you could easily get on the brain . |
| 15 | She raced inside the Vasey building and congratulated herself that she had caught up time , and was now only half an hour late . |
| 16 | Though we were pleased to see you , we would have been doubly pleased if you had entered on time , that is two weeks in advance . |
| 17 | But since the examination is testing what skills you have developed over time , the passage is likely to be similar in some way to passages which you have seen . |
| 18 | So that 's what we have to check from time to time . |
| 19 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 20 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 21 | Like a city buried by a volcano , they remain frozen in time , untouched by the change , decay and renewal which constantly alter the structures of our conscious mental life . |
| 22 | How are they expected to change over time , for example , in relation to new developments , market conditions , competitors , new legislation , exchange rates and political risks ? |
| 23 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 24 | The first 500 lucky people through the door at each gig will — if they get recorded in time — receive a free seven inch featuring mutated covers of ‘ Teenage Kicks ’ and ‘ With Or Without You ’ . |
| 25 | The workers , the direct producers of goods and services , have occupational choices that are generally free within the range offered by national capitalisms , but they do change over time and place . |
| 26 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 27 | But they 've gone with time . |
| 28 | Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference . |
| 29 | Jack of Longleigh , Adam of Rochester , and Ydrys obediently fell silent , thinking that perhaps they had arrived in time to witness the last ebbing breaths of their one-time Lucifer . |
| 30 | They have evolved over time ; one is not right and one is not wrong . |