Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good separation is only achieved if the flask is heated slowly to allow time for the equilibria to become established . |
| 2 | Silas , dear — I 've come here to spend time with you . ’ |
| 3 | Meals are taken irregularly , sleep-cycles are disturbed and leisure activities are pushed aside to allow time for more interaction with the machine . |
| 4 | If you are going to speak in them , slow down to allow time for the sound to travel . |
| 5 | Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth . |
| 6 | They were asked not to count time when Olwyn went to bed and later got up . |
| 7 | Master and dame then went off to pass time with a neighbour , while the young people sit and talk happily around a good coal fire : " More free from care than knight or squire " . |
| 8 | Schedules are handy reference points , ways of showing clients what they are getting for their money , and the bases on which the media people actually go out to buy time and space . |
| 9 | This sounds uncharacteristically bold but he knew when to take time off from his introversion . |
| 10 | You start day-dreaming just to kill time . |
| 11 | He had people queuing up to spend time with him . |
| 12 | Audiences in South Wales liked her so much that she was invited to return there to sing time after time . |
| 13 | Where , however , the tenant also had the right to initiate the rent review and the date for the tenant 's notice terminating the lease was linked to a date over which the landlord had no control ( the decision of the arbitrator ) , the link between the rent review and the break-clause was held not to make time of the essence ( Metrolands Investments Ltd v J H Dewhurst Ltd [ 1986 ] 3 All ER 659 ) . |
| 14 | And the one that knows how to make time fly . |
| 15 | Always plan ahead to save time and unnecessary effort . |