Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an enormous subject upon which we had embarked , and I felt that , as a minor guest of the monastery , I must not monopolize the time of the guest whom everyone wanted to meet . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll never forget the time you … ’ can be an aggrieved refrain in real marriages as well as in music-hall jokes . |
| 3 | On a more personal level , Riley has said : ‘ The game is the same but the stakes are higher for women – – You need time to reflect , you are alone essentially , and I knew that I could n't give the time and thought to bringing up children or caring for another person on an intimate level . |
| 4 | I could n't afford the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't afford the time , even if I had the money , ’ says Robyn . |
| 6 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wo n't do defended cases because I ca n't spare the time , not because I do n't feel competent . |
| 9 | I 'm 33 now and I ca n't imagine a time when I would ever consider using it . |
| 10 | And I ca n't remember a time when he said , ‘ Do n't play that ; play this . ’ |
| 11 | Looking back , I ca n't remember a time when I did n't love you . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 13 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
| 14 | ‘ But I wo n't have the time or the opportunity again . ’ |
| 15 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 16 | The amount that we do overseas fluctuates but I can not remember a time when we have not had an overseas project going on . |
| 17 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 18 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 19 | The coding system allows two main types of information to be coded , fixed features — those that will be the same every time a junction is seen , and variable features — those which could potentially change every time a junction is passed through . |
| 20 | After the user requirement had been produced , and the options for system development had been considered , it was agreed that it would be most cost-effective if suitable applications software could be identified , which would also reduce the time required for installation . |
| 21 | The review section devoted to recordings guarantees that Early music is consulted by many professional performers , including the directors of ensembles who may not have the time or inclination to read such journals as the Bäsler Jahrbuch fur historische Musikpraxis or Performance practice review . |
| 22 | You must n't think every time you 're tired or ca n't sleep that it 's this thing starting up again . |
| 23 | Add in some fancy graduated tint backgrounds or some a scanned logo and you 'll really see the time tick by . |
| 24 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 25 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 26 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 27 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
| 28 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 29 | Yet even if there is a little textural variety in the CD as a whole , in performances as polished as these you ca n't begrudge the time spent listening to such uniformly lovely music — it just does n't take to end-to-end listening . |
| 30 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |