Example sentences of "[det] time [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 2 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 3 | And after two painfully brave campaigns for the cause , John Emburey 's decision this time to cash in the krugerrands is fairly understandable . |
| 4 | And it 's taken all this time to come round . |
| 5 | Now another internal inquiry has had to be launched , this time to find out how news of BA 's rights issue was leaked . |
| 6 | Science was being taught in public schools and in grammar schools , and there were courses in universities , which in Britain began at about this time to catch on — this was the era when the great municipal universities started to flourish , though it was to be some time before they received government grants . |
| 7 | It has been possible for some time to cruise down the Nile , or stay in some of the jewelled and painted palaces of Moghul India , or walk along the Great Wall of China . |
| 8 | RUC were taking some time to settle down but once Davy Barbour had landed his first penalty from about 50 metres the lights went out and the Holywood stars faded . |
| 9 | So there 's a period of six weeks when they 're given some time to settle in and after that period there 's a review date set where myself , the supervisor , the key worker , the client , the client 's social worker in the community and family or anybody close will be invited . |
| 10 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 11 | But , even if she did find their name and address , since the alternator needed seemed to be going to take some time to track down , there seemed little point in trying to contact them that day . |
| 12 | When you are out buying houseplants , it 's always worth taking some time to shop around . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's announcement that England are to play their three World Cup qualifying round matches in Sardinia will take some time to sink in , but Mario marches towards his apotheosis with touching geniality . |
| 14 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 15 | It took us both some time to wake up to the fact that the world did n't owe us a living . ’ |
| 16 | But you 've got some time to wake up have n't you ? |
| 17 | ‘ I have already been told I will need an operation and it is going to take some time to sort out my problem . |
| 18 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 19 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 20 | She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing . |
| 21 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 22 | Er but erm obviously I 'll sometimes need some time to get back to you . |
| 23 | It will take some time to work out comprehensive and coherent common foreign and security policies . |
| 24 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 25 | He would have some time to slip over to London to act . |
| 26 | I switched off the tape , realizing that I would have to listen another time to find out what the preacher was really saying . |
| 27 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 28 | There was an unmistakable touch of sadness to his voice when Hills revealed : ‘ So much time to make up , so many games missed . |
| 29 | It 's just that there 's so much time to get through . |
| 30 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |