Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er this erm tt As I say this old man , he he he 'd did n't like coming in too soon in the morning , and er a I could see he was finding it a bit difficult to find both our wages out of his money , although I got there to time and worked . |
| 2 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 3 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 4 | Almost called you a witch there but I stopped just in time because it 's not |
| 5 | I arrived back in time to pipe out the Brigadier , and judging by his jovial manner he must have enjoyed his meal . |
| 6 | I turned just in time to see the storm-door across the landing shutting gently . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ he said with a grin , ‘ today I turned up on time . ’ |
| 8 | I looked up in time to see him place his cap on his head and look round the kitchen , patting his pockets as he did so . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that this was the main reason why I delayed accepting a promotion post until it was too late and I ran out of time . |
| 10 | I wrote off to Time Out and in early February 1981 found myself surrounded by eight or nine other blind socialists discussing the formation of the Alternative Talking Newspapers Collective . |
| 11 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 12 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 13 | Fortunately she retired just in time ; and saw his dark eyes , which had been so sympathetic , gleam for a second behind his little round glasses with amusement , with a kind of mockery , as she so promptly retreated . |
| 14 | It 's a good thing we got here in time , he thought . |
| 15 | Anyway we got , we got there in time |
| 16 | Thanks to the intervention and wise counsel of an Edinburgh specialist in prints , we learnt just in time that we had a very valuable collection which should be sold complete . |
| 17 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 18 | We arrived just in time to see the first members of the brass band — a trombone and a tuba — come round the corner of the lane . |
| 19 | We escaped just in time and it was downhill all the way to Narvik . |
| 20 | We took off on time , but we had unknowingly booked on to the milk run . |
| 21 | As we droned back in time from one lost place to another , I fondly remembered what had previously seemed by bad travel stories . |
| 22 | This process would be repeated until we ran out of time , cards or interest in what we were doing . |
| 23 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 24 | They got away on time . |
| 25 | They came up in time to see the penultimate line-up . |
| 26 | I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . |
| 27 | — but they ran out of time |
| 28 | Good one too , from Defender , Shawn Taylor , but they ran out of time chasing the equaliser . |
| 29 | He stopped just in time , teetering on the edge . |
| 30 | Before the American tour , John had already prepared his next new production , and he came back in time to supervise the final rehearsals before its premiere at Sadler 's Wells on 20 December . |