Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too flourishing , indeed , for the vicar , who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale . |
| 2 | A recent correspondence printed in the Regimental Association journal Mars and Minerva alluded to the time in Operation Houndsworth when three aircraft had left from Fairford for the Morvan . |
| 3 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 4 | David , you said that last week , and then when it came to the time |
| 5 | Benjamin Cotton replied to the Times advertisement and undertook to ‘ preserve the mahogany doors ( still in fine fettle ) , to turn the pantry and store room into a servants ’ hall , and the brew house and cart stable into loose boxes . ’ |
| 6 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 7 | This letter belonged to a time long before he became archbishop , but promotion did not change his mind . |
| 8 | Her love for Maman , with its consuming passion to please , belonged to the times before Maman had , as she now realized , so gallantly followed her love . |
| 9 | ( 6 ) The only finding of fact in respect of physical harm made by the justices ( ‘ He has made threats of physical harm to himself and others ’ ) related to a time when the child was in secure accommodation . |
| 10 | ‘ We do not agree with your slave morality , ’ the albino spoke to the time traveller . |
| 11 | I do n't know what you said to The Times man , but when I opened the paper in bed ( at mea mos est ) wondering whether my letter would find a place at all-well I dived under the bed clothes and went pink all over-as pink as you ! |
| 12 | What is certain is that the two parts of the community continued to the time of Lanfranc 's death and beyond to face each other with unconcealed hostility . |
| 13 | Her mother was so worried she wrote to The Times asking , ‘ Is it fair for any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This going round the world is a very easy and almost imperceptible business ; there is no difficulty about it ’ , he wrote to The Times from a ship in the middle of the Pacific in November 1872 . |
| 15 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 16 | Ruskin wrote to The Times on ‘ The Turner Gallery ’ , the day after Freeman 's letter and , as a postscript , said : ‘ I wish the writer of the admirable and exhaustive letter which appeared in your columns yesterday on the subject of Mr Scott 's design for the Foreign Office would allow me to know his name ’ . |
| 17 | Lord Palumbo , the current Chairman , sprang to the defence of arm's-length funding : institutions such as his own , he wrote to The Times , ‘ are a countervailing force to the centralisation of decision-making of government ’ . |
| 18 | Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ . |
| 19 | Steel-Maitland wrote to The Times in 1913 to accuse the Liberals of corrupt practices at the Wick Burghs by-election , and Sanders noted that at Taunton they had given away half-crowns wrapped in Liberal leaflets ; both contests went against the trend , so there may be some truth in the allegations . |
| 20 | On the publication of Macmillan 's memoirs Mr Humphrey Berkeley wrote to The Times to complain about this as being a ‘ gross constitutional impropriety ’ . |
| 21 | The old man pointed to The Times , which lay on his table with other journals . |
| 22 | She pointed to The Times , still neatly folded on her desk , and smiled : ‘ I still do it — force of habit , I suppose . ’ |