Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only 'ope 'e finds time ter marry this 'un , whoever she is . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly she has time to think of herself , and this may be something of a shock . |
| 3 | A person who listens shows that he or she has time for others . |
| 4 | Then I can safely leave Lisa to make up the flowers when she has time . |
| 5 | In retirement she has time to enjoy her leisure interests , choral singing , fell-walking , wild flowers , as well as being involved in many local organisations , doing ‘ Meals on Wheels ’ and perusing a hoard of old family letters dating back to 1809 . |
| 6 | She needs time . ’ |
| 7 | Nothing at all ! … stupid woman ! … she needs time , she says … ’ |
| 8 | Part of you wants time to slow down : for this , you say to yourself , is the best period of your whole life . |
| 9 | She reckons if she takes time off for maternity leave she wo n't get back in . |
| 10 | She finds time to sit down with the patient before she 's wheeled off to X-Ray , explaining exactly how the lung will be sealed off , that pain is inevitable and how it will be controlled . |
| 11 | She knows time may be running out . |
| 12 | When Kaye 's not rushing round after her children , she makes time for her hobby which is collecting 19th-century watercolours . |
| 13 | To produce these statistics in the way we now produce them takes time . |
| 14 | I like that thing in Ice Cube when it goes time twelve o'clock , knickers hot , dick hard , arse |
| 15 | He beats time [ bat la mesure ] using a scroll or stick [ bâton ] . |
| 16 | It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable . |
| 17 | It needs time to recoup its investment in Pentium , and still has plenty left to milk in the 80486 . |
| 18 | It needs time to develop its policies on tackling inequalities in health , but with the Australian general election on the 13 March , its days may be numbered . |
| 19 | ‘ No , and it needs time and discipline as well as motivation , ’ Belinda murmured , the instinctive empathy she had felt for Faye growing as she heard more of the painter 's story . |
| 20 | When he has time to relax , he manages to put all that energy into enjoying himself . |
| 21 | Now he has time on his hands to reflect on a career which started so promisingly when he made his Worcestershire debut while still at Malvern College in 1982 , but never lived up to those aforementioned expectations simply because of injury . |
| 22 | The wonder is perhaps that he has time to do any writing and research at all after running two companies — Pluto Press ( Australia ) and PR agency Social Change Media — and with partner Stephanie Dowrick , also a writer , bringing up two children . |
| 23 | But he has time to walk up and down the room only five times , telling Felicity what Prue said , before the phone rings again . |
| 24 | But being outside the pressures of life in the city he has time to think , and to formulate his thoughts on all the issues of the day in the form of letters to the editors of the more influential newspapers . |
| 25 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 26 | Now back in his hometown of Swindon he has time to reflect on the months tending wounded and dying Croatians at the frontline of battle in North Bosnia . |
| 27 | But he needs time or money … and there 's no money . |
| 28 | He needs time to switch off . |
| 29 | Where Hornblower 's cough is designed to give him time to avoid embarrassment or to get out of a tight corner , Septimus puts on his spectacles , which in fact he only needs for reading , when he needs time to think of a way out of a difficulty or the chance to seem more confident than he really is . |
| 30 | Michael decides he needs time , time to explore at his own pace projects involving the art of photography , video , tape slide , drama , art and design , computing , creative writing , music … |