Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 2 | On the other hand she was never hard on us and never unsympathetic ; she looked after us , made sure we were properly fed and clothed , that we went to bed at a reasonable time — all that sort of thing . ’ |
| 3 | Moreover , if Olwyn went to bed at an earlier time it would obviate the Jones ' need to reinforce aspects of her bad behaviour ( for example giving in to tantrums and providing positive attention for hitting ) . |
| 4 | Here the garden has been divided into four , each area coming to life at a different time of the year |
| 5 | Also , while being transported by wind , it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition . |
| 6 | When the Minister reviews the business regulations will he consider extending that review to the regulation of financial institutions , in view of the problems with the collapse of Guinness III and the potential collapse of Guinness II , and in view of the serious difficulty with fraud regulation at present , particularly now that only three people will be going to gaol for a shorter time than the whole of the Guinness trial was taken , with one of them , Mr. Ernest Saunders , whose sentence was reduced because of ill health , on the national media this morning in blooming health and protesting his innocence ? |
| 7 | Information on employees may exist on a company 's mini or mainframe computer but is stored in a form not usually usable or accessible by the personnel department , and mainframe information does not lend itself to interrogation on a real time basis . |
| 8 | Once there , he held on to power for a long time , easily in successive periods of government , with unusual difficulty in opposition . |
| 9 | Certainly Gladstone 's view of society was less useful in 1880 when he returned to power for a second time , then , as Chamberlain reminded him , social legislation had become a parliamentary issue . |
| 10 | As we have already noted , Stephen was stoned to death within a short time of the Crucifixion , and Saul of Tarsus was pursuing Nazareans in Damascus . |
| 11 | Everyone who sets out to attack a pensioner should know that if he is caught , he will go to prison for a long time . |
| 12 | Once again he went to prison for a short time . |