Example sentences of "time to [noun sg] [coord] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 2 | Ninety per cent of people in residential care in Newcastle are on income support and the average time to death or discharge in residential care is three years , so his department will be picking up the whole burden by the third year . |
| 3 | We need someone who enjoys working with figures and accounts , is prepared to give time to Executive and Finance meetings , and can liaise with the Society 's Officers . |
| 4 | Stand back from time to time and take a look at the big picture . |
| 5 | I get tired of all this from time to time and attempt to get off the Circle Line and branch out into new conversational territory . |
| 6 | Even though Marci gets to give him a cuddle from time to time and wash his favourite bright red undies . |
| 7 | Remember to check on them from time to time and water them carefully if the compost seems dry . |
| 8 | Anchor ice accumulations , being less dense than sea water , break away from time to time and rise to the surface , carrying with them entrapped and frozen plants and animals , which gather in layers under the inshore floes . |
| 9 | ‘ I have made arrangements with certain people in the neighbourhood — a pastor , a doctor , business people , a local historian and so on — to receive my students from time to time and talk about their work . |
| 10 | Not only do some building societies produce greatly more advantageous accounts from time to time and neglect to alert their existing deposit holders , but they actively conceal the new arrangements . |
| 11 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |