Example sentences of "time [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in time to preserve the high quality of sport and curtail poaching and illegal fishing . |
| 2 | TIME TO WIELD THE BIG KNIFE |
| 3 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 4 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 5 | It was not the most enticing of substances , and Marie returned to the surgery , this time to see a male GP . |
| 6 | Rocky , busy waving his charges on board , glanced over his shoulder in time to see a small group of dark shapes disappearing at a fast lope round the bend of the curving driveway . |
| 7 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 8 | His head rose above the floor level of the hay-loft in time to see a great deal more of Melody than he had anticipated as she slipped her ragged clothes back on . |
| 9 | She looked out of her bedroom window just in time to see a dark figure leading Bathsheba 's horse and cart out of the field . |
| 10 | They came up in time to see the penultimate line-up . |
| 11 | The Lassiters followed more circumspectly behind , reaching the stable-yard in time to see the previous year 's corn-dolly being symbolically burnt . |
| 12 | Now is the time to conduct the final check on each of the features of the list . |
| 13 | While the monster stoked , was Victor finding time to perform a facial operation on the female ? |
| 14 | But the time to plan the final report is right at the start . |
| 15 | You arrive in Strasbourg , the home of the European parliament , around 3.00pm , leaving you plenty of time to enjoy the gallic flavour of this super town . |
| 16 | The decision appears to have been prompted in part by an assumption that it would either discredit Heseltine by forcing him to back off from a challenge ( which was thought most likely ) or , if he did stand , give him insufficient time to mount an effective campaign . |
| 17 | Withdrawal should be over an period of time to allow the Northern Irish time to establish a new form of government . |
| 18 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 19 | One , motivated only by despair , deserves sympathy and time to absorb the full implication of last Thursday 's election . |
| 20 | So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act . |
| 21 | Instead , she had sworn Mrs Mentiply to secrecy , driven back to Tunbridge Wells to collect her passport , then raced to Dover just in time to catch an early afternoon hovercraft to Boulogne . |
| 22 | Photographer Bill Roberton started industrial photography in 1971 just in time to catch the final act by the workhorse of the Scots mining industry . |
| 23 | Cheryl stepped forward to deliver another blow — just in time to catch the dead body of her husband as it fell from the locker . |
| 24 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
| 25 | There 'd still be time to catch the last collection . |
| 26 | He was thirty-six years old and not yet married , mainly because his trips to Africa — where most of his work had been done — had not left him much time to find a suitable wife , though others in similar positions seemed to have achieved wives and marriages , whether suitable or not . |
| 27 | Before she had time to find a suitable reply , the telephone rang again . |
| 28 | One fact I did recognize and hang on to was that late afternoon was the best time to find a young mother at home . |
| 29 | As she reads her sons a bedtime story , she hopes a hearing at Oxford County Court tomorrow , will grant her more time to find a new home . |
| 30 | There had n't been any time to find a new skivvy , and a skivvy was vital if the evening was to be a success . |