Example sentences of "we [modal v] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't mind because if you 've got the questions we 'll we 'll certainly spend the time . |
| 2 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 3 | Clearly , before the sound begins we can not measure the time it is going to take , but after it has sounded how can we measure it , since it is then no more ? |
| 4 | ‘ We can not waste the time , and you 'll be safer in Paris than Scotland . |
| 5 | We can not afford to pussyfoot around with it , we can not afford the time not to be on the move , on the move because that 's the only way our members are gon na dictate what they want . |
| 6 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |