Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time . |
| 2 | They seem neither to have conceptualized their experience of time nor formed an abstract idea of history . |
| 3 | He has pock-marked skin which has tempered its savagery with time and sun . |
| 4 | Thank heavens she 'd escaped his clutches in time . |
| 5 | She had spent her share of time in caves digging for archaeological pieces , and realized that she was probably too deep underground to feel a breeze from outside . |
| 6 | Yet it has cast its spell since time immemorial — once the business of wizards and sorcerers , still the business of astrologers ; once subject to aphrodisiacs , philtres and charms , now subject to immense commercialism . |
| 7 | Not only was the great forest of Wychwood being felled , but they had lost their manor and the family who had governed their lives from time immemorial . |
| 8 | Whenever the doorkeeper opened up to let in an applicant who had left his card in time a great throng would press forward , hurling their plans through the door like assegais . |
| 9 | It had reinforced her awareness of time racing by , running like grains of sand through your fingers . |
| 10 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |