Example sentences of "[pron] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | She pointed to The Times , still neatly folded on her desk , and smiled : ‘ I still do it — force of habit , I suppose . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | David , you said that last week , and then when it came to the time |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |