Example sentences of "[pers pn] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 2 | If you 're striving to write a great novel or to invent a piece of computer software , the very shyness that makes you avoid social events may allow you more time and motivation to pursue your solitary goals . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 4 | You need a new routine to give you more time . |
| 5 | It gave him more time to devote to music and allowed him to pour his suffocating feelings of negativity into songs . |
| 6 | No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle . |
| 7 | It would have been less harrowing to have got the meeting over quickly ; on the other hand the delay while he awaited her return gave him more time to think and plan . |
| 8 | At least it would give her more time to recover . |
| 9 | She looked at him reflectively , realising it would give her more time to cope with the task that concerned him . |
| 10 | As she reads her sons a bedtime story , she hopes a hearing at Oxford County Court tomorrow , will grant her more time to find a new home . |
| 11 | Similarly , our analysis of how time was used across the curriculum provoked further challenges to conventional assumptions : that the way to do a subject justice is to give it more time ; and that ‘ balance ’ is about the proportions of time given to the various subjects . |
| 12 | It 'll give us more time ter get the load stashed . |
| 13 | The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence . |
| 14 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |