Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never get to them on time . |
| 2 | I mean , three little toggle switches look great but you just ca n't get to them in time — they suck ! |
| 3 | Sister Margaret will get used to them in time . |
| 4 | In addition , local authorities may have difficulty in knowing which old people need help and of getting help to them in time . |
| 5 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 6 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 7 | A nice , sensible girl , mad on animals , and very helpful to me at times . |
| 8 | It is the result of experiments with ideas that come to me from time to time , and developments into another way of segmenting to produce a slightly different result . |
| 9 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 10 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 11 | I could put it into Event , or I could give it to you for Time Out … |
| 12 | Has this happened to you from time to time ? |
| 13 | It was the only way to get to you in time . |
| 14 | Eleanor was a bit of a trial to him at times . |
| 15 | Well , I move rapidly from these dispiriting erm thoughts erm to say something about the third and last point , the question of memory , because even could the artist recreate , in the way that I 've tried to suggest , through an awareness of time , and through a , a rejection of the intellect , even if he could recreate in this way reality present to him in time , how is he to make contact with the past ? |
| 16 | She had , of late , felt herself uncannily able to predict the next word , the next move , in any dialogue : she could hear and take in three conversations at once : she could see remotely as through a two-way mirror the private lives of her patients , sometimes of her friends : she had felt reality to be revealed to her at times in flashes beyond even the possibility of rational calculation : had felt in danger ( why danger ? ) of too much knowledge , of a kind of powerlessness and sadness that is born of knowledge : for these reasons , perhaps , was it that she had decided to multiply the possibilities so recklessly , to construct a situation beyond her own grasping ? |
| 17 | I was only down there at the Spinners ’ , but I did n't get to her in time . ’ |
| 18 | Crump was a kindly man and his kindness to his wife had resulted in his being made to appear in thrall to her from time to time . |
| 19 | Blaming the other is a common phenomenon and we all resort to it at times , whether justified or not . |
| 20 | She knew he was not actually in the red at the bank , but he was pretty near to it at times , although he was now paid a very good salary , much more than Len would ever have been paid if he had still been alive and in the job . |
| 21 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 22 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 23 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 24 | We 'll never get you on to it in time . |
| 25 | ‘ Lord , you who live outside of time and reside in the imperishable moment , we ask your blessing this New Year upon your gift to us of time . |
| 26 | In other words , the later dinosaurs were nearer to us in time than their own earliest members . |
| 27 | This is close enough to us in time to qualify for the " present " end of the uniformitarian doctrine . |