Example sentences of "time to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper .
2 Lifeboats were called out 555 times to people who were in distress but not aboard any craft or vessel , and 185 lives were saved on these calls .
3 But one day Miss Havisham decided it was time to apprentice me to Joe , and told me to bring him to her house .
4 No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in .
5 This is not the time to subject me to some kind of general knowledge quiz … or to make love to me , although heaven knows I 'd like you to .
6 I had no time to steam my Christmas pudding , so I poured boiling water over it and ate it like cake .
7 And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed !
8 ‘ We can give more time to patients who are terminally ill in an environment which is purpose built to provide the support they need . ’
9 Twelve Fridays are set aside in each session for the passage of such bills although the Government can give extra time to measures it supports to ensure success .
10 From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop .
11 For these reasons — their pattern of settlement , the ease , low cost and low risk of meeting obligations — Zuwaya were able to still think of themselves as nomads : they were wrong , but from time to time they could and did regard some of their social arrangements as unchanging , inert .
12 From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments .
13 From time to time they would engage in what read like mannered conversations on whether they were acting as Cabinet ministers or as purely departmental ministers .
14 The fire had formed a bed of glowing ash , a core on which from time to time they threw a branch .
15 Kalchu and Chola were both at home and from time to time they looked down , both repelled and fascinated .
16 From time to time they surface to make regulation a topic of political debate .
17 Judges have a lively perception of public opinion on sentences ; from time to time they receive letters from disgruntled members of the public , and they read criticism of their decisions in the newspapers .
18 The goal of social independence , of helping people to ‘ look after themselves ’ , is a very important one , but many individuals with long-term mental disorder may also need specific medical and psychological treatment to lessen the burden of symptoms ; from time to time they may also need extra supervision , care and shelter .
19 ‘ I just play for relaxation nowadays , but I know two of the guys who play here regularly and from time to time they invite me to join them . ’
20 All its parts work fundamentally as one ’ ( 1977 , p. 47 ) , even if from time to time its various parts seem to be moving in different directions .
21 From time to time her voice trailed off and she became her grief , heavy as a stone .
22 In education , as in other disciplines , bodies of opinion may develop from time to time which present an unusually sharp challenge to accepted wisdom .
23 Many organisations will have important " one-off " industrial relations issues arising from time to time which are suitable for a similar approach .
24 From time to time we visited the old barrio chino , the red-light district , which formed a kind of everyman 's land at the heart of the bell-haunted , church-loaded city .
25 But I went along with him , and from time to time we shared a toothbrush , either his or mine .
26 From time to time we emerge from the factory to buy raw materials at Safeway or Mothercare , and in the end my daily discipline only echoes the great Baconian System when I purchase a frozen chicken .
27 From time to time we offer other fruit pies such as cherry , apricot , blueberry , etc .
28 From time to time we still had meat , for cattle still had to be slaughtered and there was little transport , because of the fuel shortage , to carry them to the wholesale market .
29 From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address .
30 We get down in the darkness and from time to time we pull the wire .
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