Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1	From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time .
2	He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake .
3	He is still a child , but old enough to understand about old times ' sake .
4	Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time .
5	Set your watch immediately to agree with local time at your destination .
6	They were repeatedly told he was too busy , and when finally , at the eleventh hour , they were granted a meeting , some sort of communication problem caused Mrs Sue Amphlett and her associate to be sent from one building to another and then to wait for some time in the wrong one , until they had to leave to finish the report in time for the news conference they had called .
7	To the extent that talking and trying hard to talk for less time and have more tasks to do which are to a certain extent self-explanatory , rather than having long involved tasks which two or three get on with and the rest opt out .
8	He 's a good guide as to how to behave during barren times and , while I accept their temperaments are chalk and cheese , he might just talk some sense into Wright .
9	He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right .
10	Now remember that a helicopter , unlike a conventional aircraft , does not necessarily have to be pointing in the direction that it is moving and that the pilot must tell the tail where to go at all times .
11	A teacher , employed by Orkney Islands Council , she said there was an atmosphere of great insecurity amongst council employees about there right to protest at that time .

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