Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 2 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 3 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 4 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 5 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 6 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 7 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 8 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 9 | Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started . |
| 10 | As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) . |
| 11 | Sam , about 16 months old , has had the time of his life with Peter . |
| 12 | Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door . |
| 13 | The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group . |
| 14 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 15 | That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning . |
| 16 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
| 17 | ( J. R. N. Lazier , manuscript in preparation ) has updated the time series of ref. 3 of temperature on the density surface from which we have inferred salinity ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 18 | They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem . |
| 19 | A COMPUTER system introduced by Japan 's Ministry of Health has cut the time taken to match a kidney donor with the most suitable recipient from several hours to three minutes . |
| 20 | The Digital Compression Facility — which runs at seven to nine frames a second — is designed to shorten the time taken to hours from days of encoding digital movies for rapid decompression in applications such as video-on-demand and CD-ROM recording . |
| 21 | They immediately brighten , become more animated and are often quite grateful that someone has taken the time to listen to them . |
| 22 | Why do we need to change the time period ? |
| 23 | This meant he would need to double the time to twenty days . |
| 24 | A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives . |
| 25 | Staff , though , do need to have the time and resources to so keep up with their field of study that they are immersed in its conversations . |
| 26 | Statistical comparisons with previous periods indicate that he has extended the time for supplementary questioning on ministerial statements and on Private Notice Questions and this has enabled more Members to be called . |
| 27 | So training we do need to make the time otherwise it does become a catch twenty two situation . |
| 28 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |
| 29 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 30 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |