Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] a time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If I have to name a time I 'm thinking of running around the three hour mark . ’
3 Yeah you want to have a time to go to bed .
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 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 .
6 I think you need to set a time actually .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully .
10 He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully .
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