Example sentences of "time tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her new sense of time told her that a scant three minutes had passed since landing . |
| 2 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |
| 3 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 4 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 5 | ‘ Just take your time telling me . |
| 6 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 7 | They spent some time telling him what they thought of him . |
| 8 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 9 | Your complaint will either be answered within two working days or an acknowledgement will be sent within that time telling you how long our investigations are likely to take . |
| 10 | ‘ But you would n't feel real if you were n't surrounded by people most of the time telling you how wonderful you are . |
| 11 | And all the time telling us about it in that slow , unemotional Norfolk voice of his . |
| 12 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd is on the telly all the time telling us he ca n't put his eye on a labour government to be firm with Gadaffi of Libya or sa or Saddam Hussein of Iraq . |
| 13 | She spent most of her time telling herself that it was the loss of her job that was so catastrophic ; it had nothing to do with Ace Barton . |
| 14 | If you are suffering pangs of remorse because of some unintentional action in the past , do n't you think it might be time to tell yourself that you will be more careful in the future — and let the guilt go ? |
| 15 | Take time to tell him something about your tastes and lifestyle — and the sort of style you think might suit you . |
| 16 | He was a taciturn man who found it difficult to talk to a boy ; but he did sometimes spare time to tell him of his travels in the wilder parts of Alberta , of encounters with grizzly bears , white water rushing through narrow gorges , being lost in unexpected snowstorms , in an unconquered wilderness totally alien to his suburb-bred son . |
| 17 | Now was not the time to tell him how she had tried to phone her mother , had dialled the number and her father answered . |
| 18 | She fought free , but she had no time to tell him just what she thought of a man who would play one sister against the other before Dana was in the room . |
| 19 | Now was the time to tell him who and what she was , but she could not spoil this magic moment ; it was McAllister he loved , not Sally-Anne Tunstall , and she would not ruin her perfect afternoon . |
| 20 | But now was not the time to tell him . |
| 21 | He would be bald before he was fifty but I did n't think now was the time to tell him . |
| 22 | When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her . |
| 23 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |
| 24 | ‘ I got time to tell her something . ’ |
| 25 | Now was the time to tell her . |
| 26 | Oh , and a second time to tell me how pleased he was . ’ |
| 27 | " Now 's a fine time to tell me ! " |
| 28 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 29 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |
| 30 | Once in , the queue is moved on briskly , giving the visitors little time to tell their Vermeers from their Rubenses . |