Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 2 | Arriving early for a night session is a good idea for several reasons , not least those I have mentioned about having plenty of time to tackle up in daylight , bait the swim , and settle in comfortably . |
| 3 | you ca n't stop them from using everything in time |
| 4 | I promised Claudia that my desperate need for a child was a magical , elemental desire , a sunny , smiling commitment to placing myself in time , a responsible appreciation of the ultimate inevitable selflessness of being alive , and acknowledgement of my need to escape a sorry hedonism , a way to face up to the past and accept the future . |
| 5 | It did not occur to the Jones that , for example , they were now insisting unswervingly on an 8pm bedtime , and that now Olwyn was being rewarded ( the bedtime story ) for making it on time . |
| 6 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |