Example sentences of "[pers pn] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both jobs will give him time to ‘ catch up with this international chairmanship ’ . |
| 32 | He always arrives at his desk around 7.30am , giving him time to sign cheques and deal with some administration before the phones start ringing . |
| 33 | At the moment he 's under control , but I do n't want to give him time to try going over my head . ’ |
| 34 | To give him time to make his getaway he ties me up , blindfolds me , gags me and hides me in a cupboard . |
| 35 | If she had given him time he would have been able to show her passion , he knew , but it was hard for him to relax and act confidently after years of being cowed in a stern loveless household . |
| 36 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 37 | When the French refused his conditions , Henry decided on the war which his diplomacy had given him time to prepare . |
| 38 | " Ah , oui , " she said , politely , giving him time , " Italien . " |
| 39 | Once you let up , you will give him time to think , and he 'll realise how much money you 've lost him . |
| 40 | Give him time to look at the word . |
| 41 | My presence , which Helmut claimed only when business lent him time , Jean-Claude demanded constantly . |
| 42 | He found them a quarrelsome lot , patronizing though kind to a provincial , giving him opportunities to address large crowds , but leaving him time to attend to the new NAS&FU branches which developed as a result of the strike . |
| 43 | During the year they had been together , she had seen him time and again in the dark quiet hours when he believed himself to be unobserved . |
| 44 | She did not give him time to finish . |
| 45 | It was a gesture , Blanche thought , to allow him time to absorb the information . |
| 46 | ‘ His heart 's in the right place but he 's a bit mixed up so we 'll have to give him time . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Give him time , Mark . |
| 48 | After twenty-eight rounds Cribb was unable to come to scratch , but a ruse by his seconds gave him time to recover , and Molineaux retired in the thirty-third round . |
| 49 | An ample private income allowed him time to indulge his tastes for writing , politics , and rowing . |
| 50 | From 1839 he worked as a naval instructor in Bombay , which left him time for his main interest , the study of science . |
| 51 | Prior 's intellectual energies still left him time for his family and for a wide circle of friends , colleagues , and pupils . |
| 52 | ‘ You must allow him time . ’ |
| 53 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 54 | Experience had taught her that allowing him time meant , in effect , allowing him to stay . |
| 55 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 56 | The not very exacting demands of a theology degree gave him time to make a lot of useful Anglican friends . |
| 57 | No , a speedy and preferably silent retreat would give him time to calm down from her preposterous speculation on his private life . |
| 58 | Charles was prepared to contest the definition of ‘ God-given ’ under the circumstances , but Paul did n't give him time . |
| 59 | ‘ I 've not met the Dersinghams , ’ she said , to give him time . |
| 60 | She knelt longer than she would normally have done , not out of devotion but to give him time to get away . |