Example sentences of "wasting time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a yellow card scantily punished that , Schuster was to make full payment in the last minute when he earned another caution by childishly wasting time and was sent off : an unusual , but justifiable decision . |
| 2 | ‘ Stop wasting time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It guards its independence and tries to avoid wasting time with ICI 's corporate matters . |
| 4 | This was mainly due to his enormous leaps , wasting time in the air , for he is extremely fresh , having had only one outing since December . |
| 5 | Vending machines : Cleaning is often combined with filling and routine maintenance and an effective method uses non cleaning periods to allow parts to be soaked without wasting time . |
| 6 | Some thought we were wasting time , ’ says Solowka . |
| 7 | If the UK Government is serious about stopping the greenhouse effect it should stop wasting time on long-term impracticalities such as nuclear power and look at what can be achieved now . |
| 8 | The shots had sounded from the hills somewhere to the north , and rather than wasting time on the main path that rose with the gentle contours of the valley , we took a short cut up the steep , almost sheer , cliff behind the houses . |
| 9 | I should not let them linger , wasting time , wasting money , until the spring brings them fresh hope . |
| 10 | Decide exactly where and how you will jump them and avoid wasting time by taking long sweeps before and after fences . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're wasting time . |
| 12 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 13 | A journalist who requested the check to see if Mr Clinton had applied for citizenship to avoid the draft was told to ‘ stop wasting time chasing silly American stories ’ , said Mr Clarke . |
| 14 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 15 | Now stop wasting time and get on with what you 're supposed to be doing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This is wasting time ! ’ |
| 17 | You know what it 's like : sitting in front of your PC , wasting time while it calculates a complex spreadsheet , draws your graphs or searches the database . |
| 18 | So if you are fed up wasting time and money on the ground : |
| 19 | She was wasting time . |
| 20 | Personal independence can also be encouraged if the visually handicapped pupil can find , fetch and return materials from known locations rather than wasting time trying to investigate muddled cupboards , or asking or expecting the fully sighted to undertake the searching . |
| 21 | They could see absolutely nothing and were wasting time and fuel . |
| 22 | Having done this coolly and rationally there is less chance of wasting time between each job on deciding which to do next . |
| 23 | He realized he was wasting time ; the past could wait , the future was running on a short time-fuse . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we 're wasting time sitting here , ’ he said and stood up . |
| 25 | Yet it is doubtful whether Baldwin was in fact wasting time . |
| 26 | She resented having to run out to the telephone , in the middle of this useful busyness , wasting time over something that was just a routine . |
| 27 | For these reasons students must be able both to identify and find parts of the discourse and to avoid wasting time on minute and irrelevant detail . |
| 28 | A supervisor can tap such first-hand knowledge without wasting time studying Ordnance Survey maps or other records , while the competent field man is in a position to handle a problem immediately in an emergency without having to research the questions of where a pollution may have come from , where it will go , or what damage it might do . |
| 29 | Anything to do with geometry unless you 've had a lot of practice and you 're very good at it , you can finish up wasting time . |
| 30 | Use the formula then , we 're just sitting here wasting time . |