Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time . |
| 2 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 3 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 4 | If it did not exist , would anyone trouble to invent it at a time when , from the Atlantic to the Urals , socialism in all its manifestations is losing the argument to liberal capitalism ? |
| 5 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 6 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 7 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 8 | Everything that happens to you has been chosen by your spirit so there must be a reason , even If you are unable to see it at the time . |
| 9 | Genette speaks of this change in emphasis as a restoration of equilibrium in literary studies : ‘ Literature had long enough been regarded as a message without a code for it to become necessary to regard it for a time as a code without a message ( 1982 : 7 ) . |
| 10 | With the political will we could begin to change it from the time of the first by-election of the present parliament . |
| 11 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |