Example sentences of "the time [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought now , This was the time to kill him , the time she had been planning ; the thought lit her up , she felt unaccustomed muscles in her face move again , her tongue seek her lips and pass over them as she considered how to do it . |
| 2 | This did n't seem the time to remind him that he had seen her wearing considerably less . |
| 3 | It was n't the time to remind her mother that she was forty . |
| 4 | Gilmour hit back : ‘ Pat Clinton does n't stop working long enough to have the time to use his head . |
| 5 | This is the time to use your free will . |
| 6 | But there was food here , and it would pass the time to cool it . |
| 7 | Now is the time to feed your Catfish and observe it . |
| 8 | Sir Julian Bullard , former British Ambassador in Bonn , looks into a future full of fear and expectation in Central Europe and charts Britain 's role The time to shed our illusions . |
| 9 | If you wish to encourage mistletoe to grow upon an old apple tree , you should not use seeds which are left after being hung inside the house over Christmas — these will have dried out and besides , winter is not the time to plant them . |
| 10 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 11 | Everyone , including Jake Endo , thought that now was surely was the time to turn it back into a sonnet . |
| 12 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 13 | Now Paul this is what I 've found out since you see , Paul erm said to them , Why suddenly this ? and he says , Oh we 've actually had them printed for the last two years but we 've never had the time to give them out . |
| 14 | Now 's the time to give your looks a spring clean and face the summer with confidence ? |
| 15 | Now 's the time to give 'em their cumuppance . |
| 16 | Branson himself was torn between a belief that the magazine needed more of his time , and not having the time to give it . |
| 17 | Now is the time to give it those tools . |
| 18 | There are two dangers to be avoided , if you can avoid them , in the choice of chambers : reading with someone who is too busy , who can not spare the time to give you instruction , except possibly over a snack lunch , and reading with someone who has not enough work to give you proper experience . |
| 19 | You will need the time to orient yourself to your new way of eating and to get plenty of relaxation . |
| 20 | She knew how Felipe felt about Ana 's future but this was not the time to point it out . |
| 21 | And I do not have the time to leave my stall and chase after politicans . |
| 22 | This extract is made up of two consecutive speeches to Jessica ; either speech can be played for an audition , but if you have the time to do them both together the extract works well . |
| 23 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 24 | And of course that also meant she could n't possibly spare the time to do her usual singing spot in the club . |
| 25 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 26 | The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do . |
| 27 | Now was the time to do it . |
| 28 | If you 're thinking of purchasing a top-of-the-line , multi mode Leica R5 , now is the time to do it . |
| 29 | Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it . |
| 30 | Professional counsellors faced with the same client would be clear that it is their task to explore emotions and they allocate the time to do it ; social workers have the mixed task of practical and emotional support but they have a restricted caseload and the time to build up a relationship . |