Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the 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 | you know trouble is it 's , it 's either May weekend or it 's I ca n't get the time off |
| 10 | ‘ But I wo n't have the time or the opportunity again . ’ |
| 11 | If I can not make the time myself it might still be worth paying Dessie Clancy and his lad . ’ |
| 12 | I can not afford the time to try everything and often refuse review loans , both of hardware and software . |
| 13 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Add in some fancy graduated tint backgrounds or some a scanned logo and you 'll really see the time tick by . |
| 15 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They 'd planned a trip to Warwick Castle , but she could n't get the time off . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Kovacs finishes off by saying , — So what if you ca n't tell the time . |
| 20 | Just in case you ca n't tell the time . |
| 21 | So I settled for the fact that you ca n't devote the time which I feel you would need to give to the job . |
| 22 | When you ca n't do the time , do n't do the crime turn to criminology you must be prepared to accept the punishment when they get caught |
| 23 | In the old films erm the saying was from one conduct to another , ‘ Do n't do the crime if you ca n't do the time . ’ |
| 24 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 25 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 26 | If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast . |
| 27 | Most of you wo n't remember the time , and I certainly do n't , some of you will , you 'll be familiar with the er , healing accounts , seeing pictures on , er either in magazines or on the television news , in in old news reels , of that time when Neville Chamberlain stepped out of an aeroplane , and he 's just been to Germany and , and had a meeting with Hitler . |
| 28 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 29 | On such occasions you can not afford the time , no matter how little , to set up a clip-on bobbin . |
| 30 | I do n't mind because if you 've got the questions we 'll we 'll certainly spend the time . |