Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 2 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 3 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 4 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 5 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 6 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 7 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 8 | Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up . |
| 9 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 10 | For , in the book of Daniel ( 12:4 ) there is a prophecy that seemed to speak of a time when many would pass to and fro and knowledge would be increased . |
| 11 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 12 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 13 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 14 | There 's three players per team ( chosen before the match ) , but only one gets to play at a time ( plus a computer-controlled goalie ) . |
| 15 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 16 | He says it would be morally wrong to reduce spending at a time when millions depend on it just to survive . |
| 17 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 18 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 19 | ‘ I know that Ella and Dimity — everyone in fact — will want to know how he is and would like to call , but they do n't wish to intrude at a time like this . |
| 20 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 21 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 22 | On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves , we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape . |
| 23 | To be , if you 're asked to put in a time signature ? |
| 24 | The dog may well overcome its initial fear , and start to feed after a time on its own . |
| 25 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |
| 26 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 27 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 28 | Actually , I have begun to think that I do belong to a time , but it is separated by so many decades from theirs that I reproach myself . |
| 29 | Some of the largest marsupials ( Diprotodon ) seem to have survived to a time tantalisingly close to the present . |
| 30 | He would have liked , Adam knew , to have lived in a time when a father could forbid his son to do things and the son would obey . |