Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
| 2 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |
| 3 | The matter has been under negotiation , off and on , for several years now , as I remember from my time at the Home Office . |
| 4 | The following are my reflections on what I saw during my time in the Philippines of the efforts to build a Philippine health movement . |
| 5 | Whether they were 's trained ready , when I , men I saw in my time we 'd , he galloped them on Wednesdays and Sundays . |
| 6 | Put another way , perhaps the things I do with my time are really what I want to do . |
| 7 | I think at your time of life you should . |
| 8 | I do n't look as if I come from your time , for Christ 's sake ! |
| 9 | Well , I think George Eliot in particular was discontented with the traditional frames of belief that she encountered in her time . |
| 10 | ‘ Is this how you put in your time now ? ’ said Cowley . |
| 11 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
| 12 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
| 13 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 14 | When it came slightly up-breeze of Tallis she noticed the appalling stench that emanated from its form : marsh gas and the smell of death which she remembered from her time in the mortuary house . |
| 15 | Over the next week ( assuming it to be typical ) keep a note of exactly what you do with your time each day . |
| 16 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 17 | It has in its time been threatened with demolition as a bottleneck , but has been widened and is still happily intact . |
| 18 | It is an undistinguished spit of land , barely afloat so far as one can see , but it has in its time hosted some very high-level exchanges of civilities and even persons between the two countries . |
| 19 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 20 | Owen had seen it done during his time in Alexandria , where hysterical prostitutes were quickly restored to life and reason by an experienced old Austrian police officer of the Labban Red Light quarter . |
| 21 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 22 | Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) . |
| 23 | The pretence that it exists in your time and my time . |
| 24 | Marx sees such an argument as a subtle legitimation of private property as it existed in his time , because it made it basic to human nature . |
| 25 | And while Souness paid tribute to Dalglish for all he achieved in his time on Merseyside , he intends to bury their former alliance for tomorrow 's 90-minute battle of wits . |
| 26 | Erm can you tell me some more about your father 's job and what he did in his time . |
| 27 | It did in my time and believe me , nothing changes . |
| 28 | Although an older house , it moves with its time in that is expresses the highest values of the middle classes in words such as ‘ homelike ’ and ‘ comfortable ’ , those used to describe Monk 's Topping as well as Matching . |
| 29 | You wonder what he does with his time . |
| 30 | Modestly , he said of his time : ‘ It was good . |