Example sentences of "time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't we been home loads to times to where Granny and all your cousins … |
| 2 | Space precludes a full account of the APT saga , but briefly stated the purpose of the tilting train is to run through speed-restricted curves in complete safety and without loss of passenger comfort at much higher speeds than can be achieved with conventional rolling stock , enabling journey times to be reduced without recourse to realigning and upgrading existing tracks at prohibitive cost . |
| 3 | Certainly the aspiration is not limited in modern times to those who have read Emaux et Camées , the French book that Pound respectfully pillaged for Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ; it is to be found in all modern poetries known to me , Russian and Polish as well as French , and ( more faintly ) in British and American . |
| 4 | ‘ I would rather it had n't been him , but he 's done it plenty of times to me , ’ was the answer . |
| 5 | Heaven forbid , but the urge to shoehorn into the calendar as much of it as possible continues unabated , leading at times to brain-numbing events such as the three-match Pakistan versus England knockabout immediately after the World Cup — which was a bit like lighting the cigar after a five-course a la carte dinner , then having the waiter arrive with a tureen of porridge . |
| 6 | Compare and date your own textiles with those at the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Textile Galleries , from room 96 to 101 , which include samples from ancient Egyptian times to the present century , and with the museum 's Dress Collection . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher turned from being the least popular Prime Minister of modern times to becoming an Iron Britannia , a new Boadicea , the very embodiment of toughness , triumph , and grim resolve . |
| 8 | Britain seemed at times to be close to open class war ; Mrs Thatcher denounced ‘ the enemy within ’ . |
| 9 | Raven also had him round several times to meals at his house . |
| 10 | The Waste Land seems at times to be attempting to piece together some new religion out of fragments of the old . |
| 11 | Mr Attlee , for example , saw his job as being ‘ to collect the voices of the Cabinet ’ and Mr Wilson compared his role as prime Minister at various times to a soccer ‘ midfield sweeper ’ , or the ‘ the conductor of the orchestra ’ . |
| 12 | Recently opened at the Museum of London 's Treasury is ‘ Treasures & Trinkets ’ — jewellery from pre-Roman times to the 1930s . |
| 13 | But one act of faith has remained a constant from palaeolithic times to cubism , from Tintoretto ( who also loved comets ) to Rothko . |
| 14 | You and Osman , you and the Fry , though you have told me of your perfect freedom and exchange of ideas etc. were never freer than Edward and I. Sometimes I wonder that I can speak to him as I do , never before having known a boy , and having only you at times to ‘ let out , on . |
| 15 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 16 | She complained several times to the concierge , but because the elevator behaved quite normally and decently towards the other tenants , the concierge considered Agnes 's quarrel with it her own private matter and paid no attention . |
| 17 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 18 | Most persistent was an aristocratic-looking Japanese boy who returned several times to his protest . |
| 19 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 20 | The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c |
| 21 | The level of repossessions has increased 25-times to more than 75,000 with the level of mortgages between six and 12 months in arrears rising by 18 times to 183,000 . |
| 22 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 23 | BJORN BORG has a typically stubborn riposte to those saddened by the sight of one of the game 's greatest champions being reduced at times to a level barely above that of a novice . |
| 24 | Communities in which there is a very special relationship between the individual and his neighbours , regulated to some extent by statute , but to a very much greater extent by custom and consensus ; and , of course , subject at times to the frictions and disruptions which are inevitable in any human situation . |
| 25 | He invited me several times to supper at his parents ' house . |
| 26 | There should also be a Holiday Information Book in the reception area of your hotel giving full details , as well as helpful information about everything from stamps to church services , meal times to telephoning home . |
| 27 | A German Ambassador once remarked to the author at a conference that he had referred several times to his constituents , ‘ whereas we in Germany believe in institutions ’ . |
| 28 | Modigliani disliked writing letters , but during the winter of 1919 he wrote several times to Zborowski in Paris on practical matters , asking urgently for money and canvases , thanking Zbo for sending money and , rather touchingly , explaining his progress or the lack of it to his dealer . |
| 29 | I had visions of myself repeating everything 3 times to my clients in a high squeaky voice as we mums tend to do ! |
| 30 | It was thoroughly well laid out , with fact-sheets for the kids — including free pencils — exhibits dating from the earliest times to the present day and the entrance was through a mock graphite mine . |