Example sentences of "time [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At other times they serve to enrich each other through the mutual benefit of cross-fertilisation . |
| 2 | To cater for demand at peak times it has to build extra power stations , which are then idle during times of day when demand is lower . |
| 3 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 4 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 5 | but if I come back in night time I have to put that light on and it 's empty |
| 6 | ‘ At that time I tried to get some cleaning help , but all I was offered was a shopping service , so I paid privately for a helper . |
| 7 | In that time she had to out-glare three Renaults , four Cortinas and a Volkswagen . |
| 8 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 9 | However , from this time she began to eliminate any suggestions of depth and perspective in her paintings . |
| 10 | At the time she chose to take British citizenship , which was her right and elected to try to play for Britain . |
| 11 | Next time you decide to take some action , kindly inform me . |
| 12 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 13 | Every time we try to slip past Art 's table , there 'll be a pause , and then a thick whisper that beats its way right across the room , ‘ Tod Friendly : had more ass than a toilet seat . ’ |
| 14 | The rest of the time we managed to avoid each other it 's good . |
| 15 | And in the course of time they began to make simple documentaries erm which would be something say the study of Pekin , if you happened to go there , or Italy if you happened to go , any country that to which you could go , you went and you made not just newsreels but also erm documentary studies of these films , of these places . |
| 16 | Because of the severity of the undernutrition most patients require ten to twelve weeks of in-patient treatment during which time they begin to eat normal meals . |
| 17 | At the same time they need to give due attention to this kind of balance between different aims and purposes , in this case between the claims of an English tradition and of multi-cultural education . |
| 18 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |
| 19 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 20 | The only thing that ruined the game for me was the time it took to load each room . |
| 21 | The time it takes to receive local land charge search results varies greatly depending upon the particular local authority and can take between one and four weeks to obtain . |
| 22 | The EPA has received considerable criticism concerning the length of time it takes to set such emission standards . |
| 23 | Drinking with meals the correct way can actually be ‘ slimming ’ , in that it can helpfully add to the time it takes to consume high-fibre meals . |
| 24 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 25 | At the same time it aims to devote more resources to special training needs . |
| 26 | The examination not only confirmed the findings of the comparison stage of the FAOR study , but also highlighted the difficulties and expense that would be involved if the proposals were to be implemented at the level suggested ; at the same time it helped to dispel certain misconceptions about the needs of the users overall . |
| 27 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 28 | Yet a brief perusal of the central details of Wand 's career to date confirms that in fact his commitment to new music was paramount from the time he began to rebuild musical life in Cologne in the early post-war years . |
| 29 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |