Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll swear alright , but in my own good time — |
| 2 | ‘ In my own good time , ’ Sabine said levelly . |
| 3 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 4 | The young people also wanted to have some enjoyment in their scarce free time and escape from the contradictions of their ‘ privileged ’ position . |
| 5 | The problems are the normal ones of adolescence and will pass in their own good time . |
| 6 | For the first time we do n't have to scramble out of the hotel in a bad-tempered flurry of unwilling activity , whilst those boys hit the airport in their own good time . |
| 7 | Her heart leapt at the words , but she said , ‘ No , thank you — they can recover in their own good time . ’ |
| 8 | Because what is truly remarkable , given the nostalgic lament which has accompanied the subsequent displacement of this ‘ traditional way of life ’ , is that in their own historical time these emerging cultural institutions were greeted not only as something ‘ new ’ , but as signs of an alarming development among the British people which threatened to destroy the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 9 | The days on Capitol Hill when she had to paint in her limited spare time seem far off now . |
| 10 | She 'll see wrongs righted and quarrels reconciled , in her own good time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you give it away it comes back in its own good time , like that dreadful assembly hymn , you know … and ‘ you end up having more ’ . ’ |
| 12 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |
| 13 | All they do is give you some ointment and tell you it 'll drop out in its own good time . |
| 14 | In his considerable spare time , he visits the pub , makes fruitless trips to the bookmaker , and shops for medications for his real and imagined ailments . |
| 15 | He painted when he could — in his little spare time , in his holidays . |
| 16 | Tina had felt let down , but knowing Bobby , he would tell them in his own good time what had happened . |
| 17 | He turned back to the Yard telling himself that if Berowne wanted to confide he would do it in his own good time . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'll agree , ’ William said with conviction , ‘ but in his own good time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In his own good time ? ’ |
| 20 | Dom João will be here in his own good time : he has said he will come to Ireland , and come he surely will . " |
| 21 | I 'm sure he 'll turn to you , in his own good time . ’ |
| 22 | And as you say , all we can do is wait , and continue to expect Doctor Morris to turn up in his own good time . |
| 23 | ‘ Then he 'll reappear , ’ she said , ‘ in his own good time . ’ |
| 24 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 25 | I asked him why but he just smiled , shook his head and said he would tell me in his own good time . |
| 26 | But he continues to drink away in his own private time and has no intention of following in the dry footsteps of O'Toole and Harris . |
| 27 | ‘ Alec Reid likes to tell his stories in his own goo-l time . |
| 28 | Did he think he was so important that he could finish the cottage in his own sweet time ? |
| 29 | In our own good time . |
| 30 | The moral vocabulary of these accusations against sentimentality , leniency and crinolined philanthropy that unfolded in the wake of the great legislative transformations of this era is one which we would find entirely familiar in our own historical time , and which has rolled down to us virtually unchanged across more than a century of resistance to penal reform . |