Example sentences of "the time do " in BNC.

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1 But music for the time doth change his nature , —
2 This extract is made up of two consecutive speeches to Jessica ; either speech can be played for an audition , but if you have the time to do them both together the extract works well .
3 Now was the time to do it .
4 If you 're thinking of purchasing a top-of-the-line , multi mode Leica R5 , now is the time to do it .
5 Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required .
6 But I did n't have the time to do anything except prepare for the election during that year . ’
7 Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it .
8 Professional counsellors faced with the same client would be clear that it is their task to explore emotions and they allocate the time to do it ; social workers have the mixed task of practical and emotional support but they have a restricted caseload and the time to build up a relationship .
9 The time to do experiments is also cut ; the computer compresses into a matter of minutes reaction times that could take hours in animals .
10 IF YOU have n't made a will , November is the time to do so .
11 If you 've been thinking about taking out a subscription to the Royal Horticultural Society , now 's the time to do it .
12 The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months .
13 If you have yet to record a scene which will end the tape in a suitable way — maybe a farewell wide shot of the whole park , or of people beginning to pack up and go home — now is the time to do it before the battery goes completely and the camcorder switches itself off .
14 If I was going to make a change , that was the time to do it . ’
15 A problem was that they did not have the time to do this ; cells were being charged up and time was running out , every spare moment being needed for preparing and measuring active cells .
16 The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all .
17 It is difficult within organisational constraints for social workers to find the time to do marital work and it is even harder to find time to do so for elderly couples .
18 Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls .
19 I ca n't say I blame them — for many of us walking is about getting away from the crowds , and summer in the Lakes is not quite the time to do that .
20 The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do .
21 Similarly , some organisations do not brief employees properly because they claim they do not have the time to do so .
22 ‘ He says he has n't the time to do a good job .
23 ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’
24 Today I 've been thinking to myself , I 've only got the sleeves to put in that dress — when am I going to have the time to do it' ?
25 I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do .
26 Strategically , it was the time to do it .
27 If Ginseng is n't castrated , now is the time to do it .
28 I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is
29 Heiko Bleher — he 's done things I wish I could find the time to do .
30 If you have the time to do it , tread the soil after the breaking-up stage but before raking it .
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