Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Do n't slow down every time , Loc , he told his driver curtly in French . |
| 2 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 3 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 4 | Has not the time now come for us to leave the Exchange Rate Mechanism , at least until such time as German interest rates are reduced to a level compatible with the needs of the whole of the rest of Europe ? |
| 5 | Has not the time come , however , to evaluate the optimum pupil-teacher ratio for pupils at any given age , with a view to establishing it ? |
| 6 | Has not the time come for the Government to commit themselves unequivocally to legislate in the next Parliament so that those who wish to shop on Sunday and exercise their free choice to do so are enabled to do so by total deregulation of the law ? |
| 7 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 8 | And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real-world situations and sentence accordingly ? |
| 9 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |
| 10 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 11 | All I can do is let you know nearer the time if this is the case . |
| 12 | Build up the time you spend in the sun slowly — start with 10 minutes and increase gradually . |
| 13 | ONE voice stands out every time the choir begins to sing in a village church . |
| 14 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 15 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 16 | Simon 's diary next week is rather full , but if you could telephone me early next week , we may be able to work out a time . |
| 17 | Knotting on the matching pareo , she made a mental note to telephone them as soon as she collected her wits enough to work out the time in the UK . |
| 18 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 19 | ‘ He says he has n't the time to do a good job . |
| 20 | ‘ Gosh , has n't the time gone quickly ? ’ |
| 21 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 22 | Certainly one of the most important concerns of the project manager is to know how the time of his team , and particularly his own , is spent . |
| 23 | I have this feeling I 'll know when the time 's right . |
| 24 | ‘ Ah 'll know when the time comes . |
| 25 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 26 | The approval by members at the June special meeting of a reformed scheme should , with luck , cut down the time that references to the JDS take to complete , as well as the cost of these expensive investigations . |
| 27 | The beast , or rather the cloud of smoke , kept lunging at Little Billy , but Swan was too quick for him and jinked away every time . |
| 28 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 29 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 30 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |