Example sentences of "[verb] time at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 2 | Nobody barred as Evelyn Glennie beats time at Craiginches |
| 3 | Beer mats will give way to hymnals , and glasses to enlightenment as Britain 's first ‘ pub church ’ holds its Easter Day service , two hours before opening time at the Old Farmhouse public house in Nailsea , near Bristol . |
| 4 | Long queues were waiting for opening time at the Regent Street store in London , with the company 's Brighton , Exeter and Cheltenham stores also doing a roaring trade . |
| 5 | Coleridge thought The Borderers ‘ absolutely wonderful ’ , and surrounded only by the distractions of friendship and a lovely , unfamiliar countryside , found time at Racedown to make progress with his own play , Wordsworth providing the necessary encouragement as well as some ‘ strict & almost severe ’ criticism . |
| 6 | McQuillen was responsible for establishing Sun 's Scottish manufacturing plant in Linlithglow — ironically both McQuillen and Irishman Melia have done time at Digital Equipment Corp 's Galway plant in Ireland , the closure of which was formally announced last week , at the same time as news of the planned Sun centre emerged . |
| 7 | To provide a means of measuring time at night the Egyptians also invented the water-clock , or ‘ clepsydra ’ as the Greeks later called it . |
| 8 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 9 | The sun will never swing away from that casement window , for we have abolished time at a stroke , my dearest spirit ! |
| 10 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 11 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 12 | I 'll have a look at it after , I have n't got time at the moment . |
| 13 | But he are n't got time at work see ? |
| 14 | Cue up the phrase you wish to learn , press record and then you have a maximum of fifteen seconds sampling time at your disposal . |
| 15 | It was a particularly testing time at British Steel as we were still engaged in the major retrenchment exercise and we also had the very difficult task of keeping the steel mills operating during the miners ' strike . |
| 16 | She was last seen alive on Tuesday evening after calling time at the pub she managed for Warrington-based Walker 's Brewery , |
| 17 | All this effectively rules out buying time at a bureau . |
| 18 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 19 | From then on , with the visitors seemingly content to waste time at every opportunity in the hope of keeping the scoreline respectable , the expected increase in Scotland 's lead failed to materialise . |
| 20 | Racing : Sangster calls time at Manton |
| 21 | Every day , if possible , allot time at your desk to sorting and filing everything you have collected since the previous day by way of either elicited or spontaneous data . |
| 22 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 23 | Will often visited Lord Southampton , but sometimes we went on tour with the company , or spent time at home in Stratford . |
| 24 | During the week that he was with Wood Group , spent time at Rolls Wood Group [ Repair and Overhauls ] Ltd . |
| 25 | Both King Robert II ( 1371 – 90 ) and his son Robert III ( 1390 – 1406 ) spent time at Rothesay and carried out minor building works on it . |
| 26 | He also spent time at Grantham and Gainsborough for production training . |
| 27 | During a summer romance together , the couple spent time at Oxford punting down the river , taking drives in the country and visiting local pubs . |
| 28 | More than 7,000 young men spent time at American air bases in Alabama , Georgia , Florida and South Carolina , learning the arts of flying at a time when Britain was desperately short of qualified pilots . |
| 29 | In contrast , Greg has a short-back-and-sides haircut , is 6ft 5½in , 15 stone and is studying estate management — spending time at present with a firm of chartered surveyors near Oxford Street . |
| 30 | Participants have the choice of spending time at Henley Management College , Henley-Nederland , Groupe ESC — L'Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Grenoble in France and Singapore Institute of Management . |