Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , and in virtually any agricultural supply response model , we 'll need to include time . |
| 2 | I promise him that I am endeavouring to find time for a debate . |
| 3 | However , he is aware that he can seek to find time to raise it in the House . |
| 4 | Each needs to find time to discover what exactly such issues as intellectualism , world consciousness , political awareness and moral values mean to their professional lives . |
| 5 | However , speculation remained that the Army distrusted the peace process , and that it believed that the URNG 's motives were designed to buy time and international prestige while it regrouped its forces . |
| 6 | Nor did I need to buy time for anybody . |
| 7 | The few people walked swiftly , or tried to steal time from their employers , hurrying with assumed purpose when they caught sight of her or some other guard . |
| 8 | At two Best Western hotels , the Ivy House at Marlborough and the Spa at Tunbridge Wells , they propose to bide time with theme weekends on structuring a portfolio and sorting out options and warrants . |
| 9 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 10 | As a result , users are free to focus on high-level analysis , and do n't need to waste time on details , such as row or column management , usually necessary when manipulating a spreadsheet . |
| 11 | A small number of the areas in the Castle are specifically designed to waste time — they are stuffed full of bits that adventurers , being adventurers , wo n't be able to resist looking at and playing with . |
| 12 | ‘ They stagecoaches ai n't never to be trusted to keep time ! |
| 13 | Their stories appear to rupture time , bringing them within a hair 's breadth of one another . |
| 14 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 15 | During this process it was suggested that a dummy engine be installed to save time and weight , but this idea was rejected on the grounds that the idea was for the Norseman to be as live an aircraft as it could be , and for it to taxi from the hangar in which is was being restored , across Howey Bay , to its position on the shoreline , adjacent to where it would be mounted on the pole . |
| 16 | ‘ Even Bluebeard has to have time off . ’ |
| 17 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 18 | The only problem is , one of them 's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs . |
| 19 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 20 | Then of course if you want to take time off and things like that . |
| 21 | Social workers may need to take time to clarify the nature of the social and family network , and the reciprocal exchanges within it . |
| 22 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 23 | The Labour Council continues to show its concern for the least fortunate among us at a time when it has to spend time , money and effort attending the demands of increasingly authoritarian central Government and collecting the Tory Poll Tax . |
| 24 | How can they expect their leader to devote his energy to attacking the Tories when he has to spend time dealing with his own rancorous , ill-disciplined colleagues ? |
| 25 | However , they also want to spend time with their children . |
| 26 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 27 | As soon as any woman gets a bit uppity , or any two or more women or young women want to spend time together , or even if we just plain disagree with the men or boys , the ultimate sanction can be applied : call her a lesbian — that will soon bring her back into line . |
| 28 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 29 | We do , however , need to spend time looking at some of the shortcomings of the ‘ props ’ . |
| 30 | After this , however , the child will need to spend time in consultation with the teacher and classmates , defining precise areas for subsequent investigation . |