Example sentences of "[prep] time [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business .
2 This includes allowing plenty of time to talk through the impact of events .
3 If parents are to be given a reasonable amount of time to talk with the teacher and some choice in the timing of the appointment then it may be best to spread the event over two days .
4 I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late .
5 The summer holidays had begun and she had plenty of time to spend in the shop , helping Mr Evans and watching him and wondering …
6 I was already forty-five minutes late for a dental appointment and had plenty of time to reflect upon the day .
7 In fact she would have had plenty of time to shade in the circles in the last two letters .
8 As a younger and have plenty of time to worry about the menopause before it happens
9 ‘ There is plenty of time to get on the bus . ’
10 Remember to leave yourself plenty of time to get to the start and stay clam if there are delays .
11 We landed in Bangkok this is where we had to change planes , there was about an hour and a half wait so we had plenty of time to look around the duty free .
12 David 's life is now in balance with time to follow to the country pursuits like shooting he loves .
13 Obviously completing joint statements booking in time to go on the computers to get them typed up nicely
14 Our children , 9 , and , 10 , are still asleep , but I take a cup to my wife before leaving home in time to arrive at the Grain Terminal before 7.00 am .
15 Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted .
16 Just in time to show before the dark
17 I arrive just in time to run into the law turning the place upside down .
18 Gorbachev 's hopes of signing the Union Treaty in time to present to the mid-July G-7 Summit an agreement on the future shape of the USSR , were disappointed by the actions of Ukraine .
19 Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ?
20 Luckily we were still in time to get into the RADA auditions , which I did and got a letter from them saying ‘ not only are you rejected but we strongly advise you to think about another career ’ .
21 So quite apart from the need to make new vaccines against flu from time to time to deal with the problem of antigenic shift , individuals have to be vaccinated against flu every year and even then the vaccine may not protect more than 80 per cent of them .
22 But some forest landowners were able from time to time to obtain from the Crown a grant of partial exemption from this supervision .
23 The artefacts found within cremation vessels were generally ignored and appear at times to conflict with the dates ascribed ( Morris 1974 ; Kidd 1976 ; Dickinson 1978 ; Richards 1987 ) .
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