Example sentences of "in the time [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over |
| 2 | Of course that is n't all that 's involved in doing physics , not at all — there are other aspects of actually having ideas about physics , but in the time they will see some pattern emerging within that experiment . |
| 3 | I could of finished that ship in the time we might of had |
| 4 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 5 | Sanctions can not possibly ‘ work ’ in the time he can allow for maintaining half a million men in combat readiness thousands of miles from home and for keeping his public opinion with him . |
| 6 | Yet in the time it would take her to reach the café , tell Oliver and return with him , the flat would be empty and she would never know who her intruder was . |
| 7 | Frightening a woman by looking into her bedsit at eleven at night causing her to fear violence was held to be immediate despite the fact that the victim could have escaped in the time it would have taken for the accused to get to her : Smith v Chief Superintendent , Woking Police Station ( 1983 ) 76 Cr App R 234 ( DC ) . |
| 8 | Order 7 , r 10(4) which provides that the date of service is deemed to be the seventh day after posting does not apply , and the summons is in this case deemed , by virtue of s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 , to be received in the time it would be delivered " in the ordinary course of post " . |