Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 2 | Since the first of January this year safety representatives have been given legal rights to be con consulted and I quote in good time regarding the following one any measure which substantially affects the health and safety of employees two the arrangements for appointing specialist staff three any health and safety information circulated to employees four the planning and organization of any health and safety training and five , the introduction of new technologies . |
| 3 | We move in anapaestic time and pause , |
| 4 | We live in changing times . |
| 5 | We live in sad times now ; the Puritans cut King Charles 's head off last January . |
| 6 | We live in filthy times , and if you find yourself in tune with the Zeitgeist you will know you are doing something wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ We live in different times , Toby . |
| 8 | Often I reflect that we live in crazy times , Mikhail , under crazy circumstances . ’ |
| 9 | We live in short-sighted times . |
| 10 | ‘ We live in troubled times , ’ Grierson said . |
| 11 | Alan had asked me to arrive in good time with the Registration of Death certificate and , equally important apparently , the cheque , without which the cremation could not take place . |
| 12 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
| 13 | No le , make it , do n't make him score in extra time just |
| 14 | The lords-of the manoirs and their servants converged as they had in medieval times . |
| 15 | We must criticise explanations of difference that treat gender as something obvious , static and monolithic , ignoring the forces that shape it and the varied forms they take in different times and places . |
| 16 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 17 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 18 | For too few directors does pay fall by as much when performance sags as it rises in good times . |
| 19 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |
| 20 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 21 | And if you know the history of the universe in imaginary time , you can calculate how it behaves in real time . |
| 22 | It is apt that one of the first two recordings made by Kurt Masur in his new role as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic should be of the New World Symphony , particularly when it comes in ample time to celebrate the centenary of the first performance of that favourite work by this very orchestra in December 1893 . |