Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 2 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 3 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 4 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 5 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 6 | Concern grew when they failed to return to base at an agreed time , after delivering aid to the besiged town of Travnik . |
| 7 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |