Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead , longitudinal studies incorporating a time dimension are also required for supplying historical perspective , together with a sharper appreciation of change through time and the conditions which generate it . |
| 32 | She is the organizing principle of the female , tying the bonds of love , weaving the pattern of daily life , and foreseeing the time when the last threads must be snipped . |
| 33 | It 's in a porn shop , so there 's bums and tits hanging out all around her , and she 's reading aloud from Gramsci , fantastic stuff about seizing the time , the end of oppression — power to the people ! |
| 34 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 35 | Starting to play music was a way round that It was a way of entertaining myself , passing the time . |
| 36 | It 's precious meeting the odd soul on a high top and passing the time of day with them , knowing that no matter who or what they are , you share the same interests in wildlife , wilderness and solitude . |
| 37 | Forces , being a smallish town and by no means a city , the passing of street pleasantries is not quite the folk art it is in villages but people still enjoy passing the time of day with their neighbours . |
| 38 | If it is said that it is the use to which such information may be put that can be objectionable , the libertarian might well reply that gossip is an age-old way of passing the time and one of the cements of society . |
| 39 | Running was also a popular way of passing the time int he camps set up around military installations in Iraq . |
| 40 | Running is a pretty boring way of passing the time , but is nevertheless a simple and effective way of staying fit . |
| 41 | It was a good way of passing the time , he thought . |
| 42 | But , even when simply passing the time of day with a child , I would maintain that we are backing up this interaction with the support system outlined . |
| 43 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 44 | Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character . |
| 45 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'll find a way of passing the time . ’ |
| 47 | Just somebody was in there , poking around , shifting things , passing the time nosing into everything , and thinking he 'd put it all back the way it was before . |
| 48 | The act cast a sharp sidelight of acute intelligence upon Orrie 's remark about passing the time . |
| 49 | Like you and Benyon put it — passing the time . ’ |
| 50 | Perhaps they might become friends , she thought doubtfully , or at least neighbours , passing the time of day if they met in the road . |
| 51 | Perhaps to the beach here , or passing the time . |
| 52 | If you ask me , he 's one of those chaps whose marriage was so close and idyllic that he 'll never get over his wife 's death : he 's just passing the time as usefully as he can . |
| 53 | The only real answer she provides is the joke-capping session itself , which then forms the topic of the rest of the chapter ; but more could be said , for example , on the functions of joke-telling ( for breaking down taboos , reassuring , releasing tension , passing the time , indirect criticising , etc ) ; and on the relation of joke-telling to questions of " power " and " solidarity " . |
| 54 | In the village surgery , there was the usual group of chatting neighbours , who seemed to find themselves so much at home that if Shelley had n't turned up , they would still have sat there quite happily , passing the time of day . |
| 55 | 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 |
| 56 | ‘ One advantage is that it can be used indoors at the bigger exhibition centres , thus saving the time and expense of setting up individual exhibitions . ’ |
| 57 | The consultation point is another one and in fact I 've made the point myself I think er last year , that for many of these very small schemes , the actual cost , staff cost , in developing the time taken to develop them , far outweighs the actual implementation cost cos this is just the implementation cost of the scheme . |
| 58 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 59 | No I was not pushing the time have you got this , put the other side on |
| 60 | Gaily looked back over his shoulder at the rosy-bricked manor house , for he was too near to remembering the time he had wished his mother dead . |