Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 2 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 3 | Loretta would arrive at her friend 's house in Woodstock Road in time for supper , and the whole evening would be free for a chat . |
| 4 | His notes say that it was in 1924 , but it must have been sooner , probably 1921 or 1922 , because he was back in South Africa in time to get married in 1923 . |
| 5 | Oh Dave , my journey , running about early in the morning to leave everything tidy for the chaps , came out without anything inside their tum , provided that I could have coffee on the , in the buffet car on the train from Stow Market , no hot drinks madam , we have n't got enough power in the batteries , I thought well you know it 's all , we got to Liverpool Street on time |
| 6 | She knew that the chances of reaching it , giving the alarm , and getting men and equipment back and across the heath to Scawby Marsh in time to save Angela 's pony before he sank to his death in the marsh were very slight , but she must try . |
| 7 | I think about Luiza Alves from time to time . |
| 8 | I have to be back at Les Châtaigniers in time to collect my friend . |
| 9 | A list of the network members , who represent 28 countries principally engaged in cross-border M&A activities , is circulated by Richard Agutter from time to time . |