Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 61 | Between them , the scientific techniques available thus span very wide time ranges and are indispensable in the continuing search for answers to questions of chronology . |
| 62 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 63 | Eight minutes later Keen played Slater through and his square pass was rammed home first time by Bishop . |
| 64 | It is suggested that if the timetable is important ( as for example , a development timetable in a building lease ) the draftsman should provide expressly that time is to be of the essence . |
| 65 | ( b ) The presumption rebutted ( i ) By express words The parties may always provide expressly that time limits are to be of the essence . |
| 66 | We 'd thought perhaps this time next year . ’ |
| 67 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 68 | It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’ |
| 69 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 70 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 71 | You should n't spend so much time with her you know . |
| 72 | ‘ It is a little strange … that you , the Burgermeister , should spend so much time in the theatre . ’ |
| 73 | Alright , but you know , you 've got so little time , you know , fifteen minutes is very , very short period of time , so whatever you say |
| 74 | Sometimes it gets to me , I give so much time and energy to everyone else , that there is nothing left for me . |
| 75 | My initial question was answered and these dedicated crew members who give so much time so freely can only be described as the salt of the earth . |
| 76 | Do n't run away this time . |
| 77 | Opposition Members desperately hope that he will not run away this time . |
| 78 | So I knew I was going away this time . |
| 79 | Perhaps it would just be best to walk away this time . |
| 80 | Tibbles had got hardly any time left at all . |
| 81 | Private Bills , indeed , will often be passed as a purely formal matter and will occupy hardly any time of the Houses at all . |
| 82 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 83 | got more sick time than another they 're |
| 84 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 85 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
| 86 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 87 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |
| 88 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 89 | The strangest point came from Steve the sculptor : ‘ At least you do n't spend as much time rushing to the loo as when you drink lemonade , and you burp less . ’ |
| 90 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |