Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj] time and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 2 | Such policies can not work , because cuts have to be made at a difficult time and even more jobs are lost . |
| 3 | Say you were too tired this morning to remember to ask for permission to get up early to meet me and then woke at the right time and did n't want to let me down . |
| 4 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 5 | It is generally accepted that in order to watch over an executive , the system of supervision has to be constructed in parallel so that information about the salient issues is extracted at the right time and the process of scrutiny is based on this information and takes place when the decision is still open . |
| 6 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 7 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 8 | The evening meal is served at a set time and is cooked to cordon bleu standard by Martha and is served by candlelight . |
| 9 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 10 | These lessons were given at the right time and were invaluable in later life . |
| 11 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 12 | In the two-page letter to Mr Major , the DUP leader says the inter-governmental conference comes at a dangerous time and should be called off . |
| 13 | Much worse to begin too soon and reach the end too quickly , typed Goldberg , squinting at the manuscript before him , than to begin at the right time and reach the end too quickly . |
| 14 | Much worse to begin too soon and feel one has begun too soon than to begin at the right time and discover one has nothing to begin . |