Example sentences of "them [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | The police makes them streetwise within no time at all , but they 're missing out on something ’ ( FN 9/8/87 , p. 3 ) . |
2 | He ran at the stairs , taking them three at a time . |
3 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
4 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
5 | Steam round them all in no time , using the Steamatic 's extension tubes to reach into every nook and cranny . |
6 | Then he made for the stairs , taking them two at a time . |
7 | He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square . |
8 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
9 | When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother , usually in the Empress 's study , and during the periods of residence at Compiégne , Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud , he was with them most of the time . |
10 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
11 | She felt comfortable in casual clothes and wore them most of the time , but she found herself wishing that , just for once , she had put on something rather more dressy . |
12 | ‘ But Seal Haven is a mass of rocks , with fierce currents boiling round them most of the time . |
13 | The emeralds must go , they would bring in enough money to pay some of the debtors sufficient to keep them quiet for a time . |
14 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |