Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 2 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 3 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 4 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 5 | ‘ Gone away for a time . ’ |
| 6 | Depends on time you go out for a time |
| 7 | I read once that when people get old and go senile , they go back to a time in their life when they were useful . |
| 8 | In 1839 Wellington persuaded him to resign from the Duchess of Kent 's household and go abroad for a time . |
| 9 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
| 10 | But no matter ’ — his voice rose now — ‘ you 've got to go there for a time , anyway . |