Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 2 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 3 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 4 | When I began collecting material , one of the Blaxhall people offered me an open invitation : ‘ Drop in at any time if you want to know anything . |
| 5 | Election Call , the daily phone-in , has attracted audiences of more than a million , compared with between 300,000 and 700,000 who normally tune in at that time . |
| 6 | In the Western world ( though not often in developing countries ) many public library users read recreationally at one time or another , and large numbers of people read in this way almost exclusively . |
| 7 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 8 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 9 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 10 | Only 35 per cent of young people in Britain stay on in full time education and training . |
| 11 | Have cockpit master switch and Pitot heat switch ON for prescribed time before checking that Pitot and static sources are in fact being heated . |
| 12 | I thought it was rather a bad sign that I was told I could , as a family friend , go in at any time . |
| 13 | He said just go in at any time and we 'll pick it up . |
| 14 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
| 15 | We sit there for some time but I keep glancing up , and gradually become terrified that the man is somehow not dead or has become a zombie and is climbing back up the shaft towards us , to push the grating up and put his already rotting hands down and grab us both by the hair . |
| 16 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 17 | Go for the swim and the run and come back with precise time . |
| 18 | Few biologists have not at one time or another marvelled at the exquisite fit that can be found between the characteristics of an organism and the characteristics of its environment . |
| 19 | I have not at any time or in any capacity written to Cllr Anderson . |
| 20 | Collectively , that does not leave many of us out ; and there can , of course , be few of us who have not at some time or another suffered from what might be thought of as a sexual problem albeit , perhaps , a trifling one . |
| 21 | Few workers have not at some time or another been strongly attracted towards a client . |