Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I noticed in time I would have to run after him and ask for it . |
| 2 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 3 | Although not a Christian , Plotinus was in some respects a forerunner of St Augustine , particularly because he thought of time in psychological terms . |
| 4 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 5 | ‘ The lasagne 's fine , ’ she murmured as she played for time and thought of the three months ' mortgage she had to find and how impossible she would find it to pay one months ' mortgage , let alone three , if she did n't have a job . |
| 6 | United gave as good as they got at times . |
| 7 | The Taylor Report on crowd safety , which came in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster , left many clubs with archaic stadiums facing an uncertain future as they battled against time and their balance-sheets in an attempt to meet safety regulations and secure all-seater facilities . |
| 8 | In all plantation systems the question of labour is of vital interest to those who run the estates and the research is especially concerned with how the attitudes , beliefs and values held by planters lay behind the relationship between management and its work-force as it developed over time . |
| 9 | He sat on a chair facing the desk and did not look at Mr Rose , though he did from time to time tilt his head to measure the angled slices of building and reflected light arranged by the blind . |