Example sentences of "[art] [adj] time [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right . |
| 2 | Yet they all move together in the right way at the right time to carry out part of a complicated manoeuvre . |
| 3 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 4 | Always a favourite in London , the Russian star who opted for the West in 1974 is now in his mid-forties — absolutely the right time to change over to a repertoire well within his present compass . |
| 5 | I was pleasantly surprised at how light the detector was , for when I have the free time to get out , I like to put as many hours in at a stretch as possible . |
| 6 | IF I tell you that this is the perfect time to go out and buy a record deck , you will no doubt put me down as the sort of person who invested heavily in Betamax video , eight-track tape and the Sinclair C5 : a sucker for doomed formats . |
| 7 | It is the perfect time to stand back and look at how the beauty of nature can enhance your surroundings . |
| 8 | This is the real time to take up those abandoned New Year resolutions — eat less , eat more healthily and take more exercise ! |
| 9 | HOT SUNNY DAYS AND WARM EVENINGS ARE THE IDEAL TIME TO BRING OUT THE BARBECUE . |
| 10 | Anne felt that she would be willing to abandon the good times to settle down with John , although pride prevented her from admitting it . |
| 11 | After the team had gone off , I decided to visit a needy church member first and only had time to knock on one door before the agreed time to report back . |
| 12 | As you will appreciate , the best and possibly the only time to carry out such projects is the spring/ early summer period , partly because of the weather , partly because volunteers tend not to be available in the summer . |
| 13 | Er which er I suspect was due to the th the insufficient time to carry out the exercise . |
| 14 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |
| 15 | But we need to have a degree of common ownership of at least the broad parameters of what the world may look like , and we then seek the whole time to simplify down and down and down . |
| 16 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 17 | But touring takes up so much time that there 's no real time to sit down and work out songs . |
| 18 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 19 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 20 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 21 | We to put the decorations up in th in a s in a short time limit , the decorations take quite a long time to put up and as you know the decorations are erm are very famous er they 're nationally recognized . |
| 22 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 23 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 24 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 25 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 26 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 27 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 28 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 29 | It takes such a long time to use up a tin , you probably would n't realise . |
| 30 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |