Example sentences of "killing time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 2 | Old ladies with thick stockings holding veins like knots of worms , and men whose eyes are duller than clay alleys dream other dreams and watched the numbered screen , killing time , hoping for a win . |
| 3 | But staying out at night cost money if you did the right things : coffee bars and a movie or a disco , but if you rode round in borrowed cars it was an okay way of killing time . |
| 4 | So the generally-applied killing time , regardless of the method to be used by sportsmen , is in the period from August to April — when the rabbits are more mature as a stock and also at their most numerous . |
| 5 | The composer Mark-Anthony Turnage has written a 30-minute television opera , Killing Time , with a libretto incorporating prison poems by Albie Sachs and Ho Chi Minh . |
| 6 | With ‘ Killing Time ’ in '89 Clint was a thrill , a new voice , a more grainy version of that rich young smiler , Randy Travis . |
| 7 | I was just killing time . |
| 8 | But narrow-minded people are a good part of the reason for ‘ Killing Time ’ 's existence . |
| 9 | A few yards away , a crippled rasta sits in his wheelchair , killing time . |
| 10 | Killing time before England 's World Cup qualifier match with Norway , English soccer fans ransacked an Oslo pub causing over £100,000 ( $154,000 ) of damage . |
| 11 | Derek Van Arman Just Killing Time ( Coronet ) |
| 12 | But the hooker will ravenously remain , on the sidewalk , in tanktop , in hotpants , killing time before her next date . |
| 13 | Doctor Granville pointed out that one of the most difficult problems facing those taking cures at Harrogate was that of ‘ the best mode of killing time while waiting for the waters to take effect . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He is killing time , ’ Bicker grated , ‘ and I would like to know why . ’ |
| 15 | Was Bragad killing time here ? |
| 16 | She 's up there now , thought Bella , up in that freezing studio , killing time till the child comes home , mooning , dreaming , turning disjointed thoughts over in her head , and we 'll pay for it . |
| 17 | Some severe orange and purple lilies that look like toucans keep a fixed eye on me , as I sit , anchored , killing time . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that those of us who have watched the terrible destruction in Croatia are disturbed by the amount of killing time between now and 15 January ? |
| 19 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |