Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things that we do n't want to remember may be indelibly engraved on the mind , little eroded even by time , but million of unimportant things are blissfully forgotten — which is just as well for our mental health ! |
| 2 | True , he gets himself so wound up at times that he ca n't help himself . |
| 3 | In the three-dimensional systems treated in section 2.2 , the strange attractors are locally planar : a small displacement perpendicular to this sheet will decay , as the trajectory returns to the attractor ; a small displacement along the sheet will remain , as a trajectory is effectively pushed forward in time ; and a small lateral displacement will grow in time . |
| 4 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 5 | Problems which are ignored are generally made worse with time , and consequently take much longer to deal with effectively , and also require more confidence and expertise on the part of the counsellor . |
| 6 | The invasion of Italy by Hannibal precipitated a series of military disasters on Rome and had a clear effect on her coinage : the purity of the silver was reduced ; the weight standard of the bronze coinage fell away from a standard of 135g to one of only 54g ; and a coinage of gold was issued ( before the Roman imperial period , gold coinage was unusual and generally produced only in times of emergency or crisis ) . |
| 7 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 8 | Centre-halves had always played defensively at times , but now their role was to become primarily defensive . |
| 9 | Doreen Wranklin could n't understand it as she had always paid up on time . |
| 10 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 11 | The Queen , Queen Mother and Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , also turned up in time for lunch in the royal shooting lodge . |
| 12 | We have also reached back in time , using memories of grandparents from more than 600 interviews and autobiographies , to try to sense how later life may have changed over two or more centuries . |
| 13 | Other places were also hit savagely from time to time , but it is often difficult to tell from the registers which particular disease was responsible for an unusually high number of deaths . |
| 14 | Some people only have to take the faintest whiff of the entrance hall of a hospital to be sharply transported back in time to relive a traumatic hospital experience ( endured during childhood perhaps ) ; they may feel shaky or even nauseous . |
| 15 | Reese ( Michael Biehn ) , a human guerrilla , is simultaneously sent back in time by Connor to protect Sarah and , unwittingly , to ensure Connor 's own conception . |
| 16 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 17 | You may well run out of time — or steam ! |
| 18 | ‘ We 've simply run out of time in trying to reach an agreement with all concerned ’ said tournament director , Alex Meyer-Wolden , who nevertheless remains hopeful that he will be able to stage a mixed event in 1992 . |
| 19 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 20 | It was then laid just in time for the Royal Opening . |
| 21 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 22 | The Swifts then came to life with Beattie 's 25-yard free kick just over and Robinson 's forward burst barely cut out on time . |