Example sentences of "us [det] time " in BNC.

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1 A sundial tells us that time was important even before the Swiss started making clocks and watches .
2 But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house .
3 Give us some time .
4 The British murmur ‘ You must come and stay with us some time , ’ and when they part they say ‘ Let's keep in touch ’ and they certainly do n't mean it , but it greases the wheels of intercourse .
5 The children made lots of friends in the Mini-Club , under the watchful supervision of ‘ Animators ’ who organised activities in the morning and afternoon giving us some time to ourselves .
6 Mrs P Satterley is the reader who wrote to us some time ago to say how wonderful the people at this shop are .
7 One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode .
8 ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States .
9 It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off .
10 They gave us some time back afterwards , because of the bairn having an operation .
11 Yes … you must come and train with us some time ! ’
12 It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson …
13 This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun .
14 These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial .
15 ‘ Come and see us some time , ’ said John Postlethwaite .
16 " Why do n't you come out with us some time ?
17 ‘ Come up and see us some time , ’ they wrote , dangling as bait the finest toasties West of the A1 .
18 We shall be grateful if the Minister can help us on that , but if he can not perhaps he will help us another time .
19 If you really want to aid us this time round , tell everyone that .
20 The soloist throughout is the estimable Norbert Kraft , and this label 's predilection for Canadian ensembles introduces us this time to the Winnipeg SO under Kazuhiro Koizumi .
21 And they 're not charging us this time you will notice .
22 ‘ So you 've told us many times , ’ said Rozanov not looking up .
23 She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed .
24 The words of the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) , speaking in Gwent in 1980 , have been quoted against us many times today .
25 Mel was a permanent fixture in our 1st Division defences and , over the four seasons 1969–73 , only John Jackson appeared for us more times than he did , while his 151 1st Division games for us tell of a stalwart and dependable defender who could be relied upon in every situation .
26 It 'll give us more time ter get the load stashed .
27 The advantage of using a sound-based code with working memory is that it produces memories which are more durable than those based upon a purely visual code , and this gives us more time to calculate the meaning of the sentence .
28 I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it .
29 ‘ You are welcome to come and inspect us any time you like , ’ he was saying .
30 But for now I 'll and you 're happy to start with us any time yeah ?
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