Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | CALL ME old , call me antiquated , but I remember a time when The Railway Children were , if not quite press darlings , then at least going on the occasional date with the media . |
| 2 | It was the sort of London garden which grew London Pride and smelt of snails but there was room to play cricket or French cricket on the grass ( You ca n't have five children and a nice lawn , as my Father sagely remarked ) and I remember a time when obstacle races round the gravelled path on our bicycles was popular with my sister and me . |
| 3 | I foresee a time when there will be degrees in Community Interpreting as there are in Australia and I hope that there will be a recognition of equivalencies will allow interpreters to work in the countries of both of their languages . |
| 4 | Do I put no I do a time check . |
| 5 | . God I need a time and motion expert in this cupboard . |
| 6 | You 'd think because we live on you know Woking is on top of us but it 's but it I notice that it was quite you know a time . |
| 7 | If you name a time just so as |
| 8 | I want to get it down now , while there are still people who remember a time that was . |
| 9 | For those who like a time check once in a while , it was now 9.30 hours to go and still counting down . |
| 10 | Unless you set a time or something . |
| 11 | Er you fe you , you call a time , we used we used to do it on We Wednesdays and Saturdays . |
| 12 | If you take a time exposure of the stars with a static camera you just get streaks , because of the Earth 's movement , and I should make the device follow the stars at the correct speed , you can get an awful lot of stars that 's completely invisible to the naked eye . |
| 13 | And whenever , whenever you see a time clause press alarm |
| 14 | Not only do you have to keep an eye out for hidden switches to help you get across treacherous terrain but , hardest of all , you have a time limit to complete the game — exactly 60 minutes — or it 's curtains for the Prince . |
| 15 | But we did n't know how it was going to go , so mentally we set a time limit on it . |
| 16 | Grammatical change is slower but readily discernible if we take a time span of four hundred years . |
| 17 | We have a time scale , too . |
| 18 | We need a time limit which is short enough to be attractive but long enough to effect a result . |
| 19 | they want a time to start . |
| 20 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 21 | They set a time , however , within which the coheir should set to construction , and after which they wished Procula alone to construct , imputing costs to her coheir for his share . |
| 22 | When migrating to the northern hemisphere they choose a time when the atmospheric pressure is falling , the temperature is rising and the winds are blowing northwards . |
| 23 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |