Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 2 | If you go back to the time United Biscuits felt they had to close their Liverpool factory , the bishops up in Liverpool marched on Hector Laing and tried to persuade him to put the decision off . |
| 3 | I read once that when people get old and go senile , they go back to a time in their life when they were useful . |
| 4 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 5 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ You miss it coming up to the time , but I made up my mind some time ago to call it quits . |