Example sentences of "[verb] [det] of the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Allen : Will the Hon. Gentleman consider using some of the time of those operators for the installation of a fax machine which could be used collectively by right Hon. and Hon. Members rather than duplicating many times a facility that could be provided and serviced by one additional member of staff , or even by current members of stall ? |
| 2 | They have occupied much of the time of the higher courts but are on the margins of land law , which traditionally focuses on the market-place and the importance of documentation as the root of title . |
| 3 | We were n't , I now realise by doing the sums , badly off My father paid the rent , all the bills , gave us our pocket money , and a fixed sum of f7 a week housekeeping money quite a lot in the late 1950s — went on being handed over every Friday until his death , even when estrangement was obvious , and he was living most of the time with someone else . |
| 4 | We 'll spend most of the time in bed . ’ |
| 5 | And , in the course of that hunt , I spent some of the time in … the place where Kokos comes from . ’ |
| 6 | He suffers much of the time with sore feet ( furunculosis ) which unfortunately makes him lame . |
| 7 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 8 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 9 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 10 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 11 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 12 | To beguile some of the time in Malvern , they went to the cinema . |
| 13 | Sales are somewhere in between since although there is a structured sales department , individual salesmen operate much of the time on their own . |
| 14 | I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day . |
| 15 | And I did have a splendid evening , spending most of the time with a red haired sergeant who seemed to appreciate my sense of humour — in fact , I thought we were getting on so well that I was disappointed when the evening ended and he did n't make any arrangements to see me again . |
| 16 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 17 | He had been there a few weeks , suffering most of the time from frostbite after thirty hours in a dinghy in the Atlantic . |
| 18 | At the other extreme is the stance taken on the MoD 's continuing tenure , which insists that it is not proper that the public continue to be excluded some of the time from all , and all of the time from some , of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles . |
| 19 | Evan spends much of the time with his eyes clamped shut , rocking gently and scraping notes out of his sore , croaking throat . |
| 20 | His parents will be able to spend much of the time in the ward with him . |
| 21 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 22 | Many graduates proceed to research posts in universities , often working much of the time in international laboratories , such as CERN in Geneva . |
| 23 | From Ajaccio they travelled by bus to Porto Vecchio , Minton sleeping much of the time with his mouth open and head lolling against Ross 's shoulder . |
| 24 | Oh there 's a char , there 's a lovely char here , these lovely chars er actually spend most of the time in big cold lakes and they 're a , they 're a population in they normally respond in December from about December the second to the fifteenth and they 've probably been isolated since fourteen thousand years ago , with that every population has gone slightly different to , to the next one . |
| 25 | Roles works most of the time with one of his two Hasselblads , which he finds a good compromise between quality and portability ; these and a range of lenses comprise his field equipment . |
| 26 | Lady Hamilton ( 1941 , That Hamilton Woman in US ) , which Korda made in America with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier , works most of the time as a love story , but the messages that constantly obtrude about men whose ‘ insane ambition ’ makes them want to destroy what others had built are not organic to the main narrative . |
| 27 | These are the unthinking reactions we all have most of the time to various common facts . |