Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm phoning to arrange a time … |
| 2 | And yet she felt bound to warn , ‘ But , there has to come a time soon when you must let go of the past … or go to Richard and Beth with all that is in your heart . ’ |
| 3 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 4 | To take a simple example , the Social Science Data Archive at Essex has a fine run of survey data from Family Expenditure Survey and General Household Survey well suited to the needs of those who want to create a time series as a part of current social science analysis . |
| 5 | We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better . |
| 6 | Yeah you want to have a time to go to bed . |
| 7 | Er , we said something about for a , we do n't want to set a time period on it do we ? |
| 8 | We are frequently presented with data consisting of observations at successive points of time ; such data are said to form a time series . |
| 9 | We 've grown up with it , there 's got to come a time when we say ‘ put a halt to it ’ , but er I do n't know what we 'll do then |
| 10 | What do you think you 'll feel like when they tell you that you ca n't foster any more children , because er there 's going to come a time |
| 11 | be used to create a Time Line , whereby we create a visual representation of someone 's life history on the floor of the school hall — perhaps with still images at various points , or carefully chosen objects to remind us of particularly significant moments in a person 's life . |
| 12 | I 'm going to do a time check . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't like to put a time on it , but we could be talking years . |
| 14 | But you do have to arrange a time with them but the benefit of this is that there will be a tutor to assist you . |
| 15 | But I knew there 'd have to come a time when I broke the news to him that the education system and I had split up . |
| 16 | within one big area i i if you can and I think shutting things , I think putting trellising up to , not trellising but that sort of thing , to a certain extent at the minute we do n't need and I think I 'll have to come a time er too when it 's open as well to get |
| 17 | Your direct communication with the patient is a vital part of your care , so you should try to keep a time spare for simple conversation , no matter how busy you are with organizing the practical aspects of home life and the patient 's needs . |
| 18 | You may want to stipulate a time limit for replies : to help with your catering arrangements : Please reply on or before May 8 , 1922 . |
| 19 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 20 | Where a party seeks to extend a time limit imposed in the rules , he must apply for directions as above ( FPCR , r15(4) ; FPR , r4.15(1) ) . |
| 21 | Similarly , where an agreement specifies the time for doing three things ( eg , taking procedural steps towards a rent review ) and two of the three are stated to have a time limit which is of the essence of the contract and the other one does not , then it follows that , in all probability , where it is not stated to be of the essence , it is not intended to be of the essence . |
| 22 | I think you need to set a time actually . |
| 23 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 24 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 25 | Unless it was sentimental to want to remember a time when he and this girl had not been strangers to each other . |
| 26 | You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it . |
| 27 | If I have to name a time I 'm thinking of running around the three hour mark . ’ |