Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each needs to find time to discover what exactly such issues as intellectualism , world consciousness , political awareness and moral values mean to their professional lives . |
| 2 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 3 | ‘ Even Bluebeard has to have time off . ’ |
| 4 | He needs to have time and freedom to concentrate on proper spending ! ) |
| 5 | The only problem is , one of them 's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs . |
| 6 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 7 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 8 | The Labour Council continues to show its concern for the least fortunate among us at a time when it has to spend time , money and effort attending the demands of increasingly authoritarian central Government and collecting the Tory Poll Tax . |
| 9 | How can they expect their leader to devote his energy to attacking the Tories when he has to spend time dealing with his own rancorous , ill-disciplined colleagues ? |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Then the leader needs to make time for members of the group to say what they are aiming at in their walk with God and to give time for mutual ministry and prayer . |
| 12 | Stronachs plans to introduce time management and other functions as well . |
| 13 | This attitude tends to eliminate time , since both effect and cause are regarded as co-present in the mind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He still seems to have time for — fun . |
| 16 | He never seems to take time off : a friend tells of how Joey , Mr Lee 's young son , once protested by scrawling his own name in his father 's diary for an appointment . |
| 17 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 18 | He hopes to spend time exploring the challenges of ‘ spirituality and non-literate young people ’ with an emphasis on communicating and sharing the good news , working with the bible and the issue of ongoing nurture . |
| 19 | And she also hopes to spend time with Chester Zoo 's own black rhino baby Emma , mucking out and washing her to raise money . |
| 20 | However , if the draftsman wishes to make time of the essence of some but not all of the procedural steps he should be particularly careful to make it clear which steps carry strict time limits and which do not ( as the draftsman failed to do in Bradley ( C ) & Sons Ltd v Telefusion Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 337 and Art & Sound v West End Litho [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 138 ) . |
| 21 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 22 | After Boxing Day the family likes to spend time relaxing together in this comfortable , welcoming home . |
| 23 | He likes to take time off to be with his wife Judy and their four children . |
| 24 | What the NME fails to realise time and time again is that we whiteys have minds and therefore opinions and views of our own . |
| 25 | Siege mentality fails to stop time marching on Summit sketch . |