Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One becomes accustomed to constantly ringing church bells and clocks — our local church clock chimes up to six , then at 7 o'clock it begins again , requiring a mathematical feat to work out the correct time . |
| 2 | The child comes to know when the special time is and guards it . |
| 3 | The FLA should draw up a development plan with every Football League club to bring its ground up to scratch over an agreed time period . |
| 4 | Some students find it best to set aside a regular time each week ( perhaps at the weekend ) to file all the notes taken during the previous week . |
| 5 | And secondly , we 'll be able to sort out a reasonable time for getting her home . |
| 6 | Literally speaking , ephemera are things that last only a day ; in the more accepted sense , things destined to endure only a short time ; but , by a curious paradox , in the most modern sense , things which have , in fact , long survived their predestined span . |
| 7 | To chuck away the big time for a day out at Wembley would be a shame . |
| 8 | She very much doubted Madeleine would be prepared to give up the good time she was having to settle down in the country on Harry 's salary . |
| 9 | And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that . |
| 10 | This is the average number of hours that each worker is willing to supply over a given time period . |
| 11 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 12 | We used to have quite a good time . |
| 13 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 14 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 15 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
| 16 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 17 | The bad news is that your pass is for today and Friday , and Lil wo n't allow you to make up the lost time in the field . |
| 18 | This is because some weight is given to the cash flows in early years of the bond 's life and this helps to bring forward the average time at which cash flows are received . |