Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 2 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 3 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 4 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 5 | I was fortunate to grow up at a time when imperial measurements were generally used , but science was special in being both imperial and metric . |
| 6 | Although I would have kept all the notes and drafts and I could , therefore , reconstruct how a poem is written , it 's my experience that once it 's been written it 's very hard for me to imagine back to the time when it was n't written . |
| 7 | I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ . |
| 8 | Do n't try to give up at a time when you are already stressed . |
| 9 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 10 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 11 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |
| 12 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 13 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 14 | They showed us some shacks ( almost like dog kennels ) that they used to live in at the time of the Japanese occupation . |
| 15 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 16 | King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him . |
| 17 | On the subject of delays in responding to minutes , Mr Holden pointed out that speeding up the process would also add to costs , and that some delay arose because reports had to be considered by the Institute as well as by the JMU ; any suggestions on how to cut down on the time involved would be gratefully received . |
| 18 | Right at the end , as McLeish 's teeth were starting to chatter , Davidson confirmed that Penelope Huntley would meet him at eight next morning and he hoped that that was n't too early , sorry , but the lass had been difficult to tie down to a time . |
| 19 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 20 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 21 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 22 | To understand the font situation it is necessary to step back to the time before there was desktop publishing , at least in an electronic sense . |