Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 2 | She 'd asked for time , had n't she ? |
| 3 | And yet the painful burden of her love she ached to share at times , and who better with than Steve ? |
| 4 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 5 | She had the sudden awful desire to yell at Anne , to deny everything she was trying to say ; but how could she , when in truth she had felt at times every one of those things ? |
| 6 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 7 | She had hoped to time her nightly visit to the nursery so that he was actually being put down to sleep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She raced inside the Vasey building and congratulated herself that she had caught up time , and was now only half an hour late . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 18 | He had dowsed a spiral of energy on the stone which he found varied over time . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 20 | The third source of signals , autonomic nervous activities , was first noticed by Darwin , although their nervous control was not then known ; he instanced shivering at times of fear in humans . |
| 21 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 22 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |
| 23 | If he did apply in time and gave up all to one creditor , he remained a prisoner in the rest of the actions . |
| 24 | It did happen at times but they were usually people who fancied their power , such as city councillors . |
| 25 | Mostly it had to do with Time . |
| 26 | The knowledge disappeared as quickly as it had come ; but it had come in time to remind her of why she had waited so anxiously for Johnny to visit her ; to remind her of why she had longed for his return with such a burning impatience . |
| 27 | Unfortunately this does not appear to work the other way ; the shipowners would not be entitled to any share in a windfall profit if the market value of the cargo increased dramatically and was sold for much more than if it had arrived on time . |
| 28 | The only reference in Cook 's brochure to an individual was to ‘ the bronze figure of the man ’ , working as he had done since time immemorial . |
| 29 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |