Example sentences of "in time they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Okay , at that point in time they had n't actually er taken
2 In time they reached legendary , almost Messalina-like proportions .
3 For the first few days the hands and feet become too sore to practise with , but in time they become sufficiently conditioned to withstand the constant impact and calluses begin to develop in the key areas .
4 Originally , they were the property of the crown , but in time they passed to the local aristocrats .
5 In time they made new villages , cleared more land for crops and traded with the older inhabitants .
6 His mother 's friends at court became his : in time they included , along with Walahfrid , Lupus of Ferrières ( welcomed by Louis and Judith at Frankfurt in autumn 836 ) , the palace clerics Prudentius , Wenilo and Berno , and the seneschal Adalard .
7 Common sense ( or observation ) may show that the pattern of behaviour requires the forecaster to give progressively less weight to values the further back in time they occur .
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