Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] our time " in BNC.
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| 1 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 2 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 3 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 4 | the , what Daniel wrote there it 's happening in our time |
| 5 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 6 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 7 | There was one weekend left to go of our time at Canjuers . |
| 8 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 9 | And nor is it simply a question of numbers — among these studies are some of the subtlest , most ingenious and most penetrating essays written in our time , and the factor common to almost all , the naive or the clumsy as well as the brilliant , is the conviction explicit or implicit that Joyce is an outstanding , indeed for some the outstanding , modern writer . |
| 10 | But the animals that are to be seen in our time can be interpreted as the end-products of an arms race that was run in the past . |
| 11 | Problems such as deadlines , noise , marital strife , excessive demands made on our time by others , and so forth . |
| 12 | As well as giving presents , let us make sure that we also give of our time and attention to those who care about us and our thanks to those who have given to us . |
| 13 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 14 | Even the busiest of us can be persuaded to give of our time and our expertise when we know that the task we are undertaking will take a pre-specified and limited time . |
| 15 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 16 | For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty . |
| 17 | Freeborn men and small landowners , they were in theory able to ‘ dispend of their owne land in yearlie reuenue , to the summe of fortie shillings sterling , or six pounds as monie goeth in our time & commonlie liue wealthilie , keepe good houses and travell to get riches ’ . |
| 18 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 19 | Well that 's right we ca n't go before our time |
| 20 | ‘ Since you remember those moments we shared so vividly , my prowess as a lover must have left some impression on you , ’ he gritted toughly , then , his eyes glinting dangerously , he told her , straight from the shoulder , ‘ Though in actual fact I was n't talking of our time on your bed , but of your interest in my financial standing ! ’ |
| 21 | It provides for both Britain and France a unique representative picture of the quality of family life and how it has been changing in our time . |
| 22 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 23 | Lindsay placed the central emphasis on " culture " , understood as " the essential system of ideas governing the world and man , which belong to our time " . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I can see what this means : it 's the end of beating in our time . ’ |