Example sentences of "[v-ing] time to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We join all the other dancers jumping up and down , round and round the dance floor , stopping momentarily as I place my rifle in a corner near the band , then on again keeping time to the music . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) In this Order — ’ allotted day ’ means any day ( other than a Friday ) on which the Bill is put down as first Government Order of the day , provided that a Motion for allotting time to the proceedings on the Bill to be taken on that day either has been agreed on a previous day , or is set down for consideration on that day ; ’ the Bill ’ means the Local Government Finance Bill . |
| 3 | In 7 the switch from the past tense ( " was ' ) to the present tense ( " walks ' , 'says ' ) marks a shift in the temporal deictic centre from coding time to content time . |
| 4 | Sailing has always seemed like a decent way of spending time to me . |
| 5 | Giving time to both sports is now easier than it was . |
| 6 | Giving time to the community |
| 7 | However , his current commitments prevent him from giving time to the forum . |
| 8 | The strategy was given its first airing two days after the Danish vote at a meeting of the Council in Oslo on 4 June , when it was agreed to proceed with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty while giving time to the Danes to resolve their problems . |
| 9 | The average Tube-goer 's travelling time to work is 52 minutes and rising by several seconds every week . |
| 10 | I like having time to myself , and being an individual . |
| 11 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 12 | Norman became a four-handicap polo player He was devoted to sport , golfing around the world 's best courses and still finding time to be an active member of the Royal Yacht Squadron , He owned a 70-ton yacht called Revive . |
| 13 | ‘ Take Me , I 'm Yours ’ , an eight-minute guitar tirade later had its name shortened to ‘ Take Me ! ’ ( although it was actually lengthened in playing time to nine minutes on the LP ) after the 100th person pointed out to Gedge that Squeeze had a song of the same name . |
| 14 | As a consequence , there is a reluctance to even devote thinking time to this subject . |
| 15 | Information has been collected on households ' patterns of donating money and volunteering time to charities , individuals ' motives for giving , their attitudes to charities , and their knowledge of and views of covenanting and bequeathing money to charities . |
| 16 | This last suggestion might be taken more seriously as the working week gets shorter and if the pay penalties for devoting time to caring were reduced . |
| 17 | Most of the ideas , techniques and strategies described in Part Two hold good for working with young children , but it is worth devoting time to a specific discussion of how one might adapt the work on still image and forum theatre for use with this age group , as they are sometimes thought to be strategies that can only be successfully used with older children . |