Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much to see so little time ! |
| 2 | It 's a bunch that rides steadily , guided by experienced domestiques who know how to keep going and not lose so much time that they will be eliminated from the Tour as a whole . |
| 3 | One wasted so much time arguing with the body , urging it through the laborious and uncomfortable routine of physical existence — getting up , washing , shaving , even moving . |
| 4 | Director of mental health Jonathan Mumford said concentrating services in one place would make it more effective and mean less travelling time for staff , patients and families . |
| 5 | In a letter he attacked Mr Brown for ‘ wasting so much time and energy on an issue which is totally irrelevant to the concerns of the British people . ’ |
| 6 | Why is wasting so much time ? |
| 7 | Then you were given so much time to get back home again . |
| 8 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 9 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 10 | ‘ I will know better next time . ’ |
| 11 | Well , we 'll know better next time . |
| 12 | I shall know better next time . |
| 13 | Still , you 'll know better next time , eh ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps you 'll know better next time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if the character ends up in chamber 81d you might allow him to find the ring of Verena since he has so much time to kill . |
| 16 | That the potters devoted so much time and care into applying these techniques would appear to indicate the existence of willing purchasers . |
| 17 | Now the way I see it , you want more upmarket time than the plebs . |
| 18 | How many of you know what transpired yesterday this time outside Moat Centre . |
| 19 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 20 | I 'll just have to try harder next time … you 've got to keep going |
| 21 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 22 | Sketchy jumping had let down Country Member on a number of occasions last season but he fenced soundly this time , quickening well between the last two to take command . |
| 23 | Did they need even more time for that scene change to be safe ? |
| 24 | If you 're coming to work here full time , you 're bloody well going to join the Pony Club . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Danker , ’ said the man in battle-dress , and to me : ‘ Hullo , old boy ’ as if it was inevitable that I should have come there some time or other , and went on throwing the ball about . |
| 26 | ‘ Hardly anyone lives there full time . |
| 27 | Do let's chat again some time and you can tell me all the gossip about Buck 's new tenants . ’ |
| 28 | The participants feel flustered , uncomfortable , annoyed and unlikely to want to come again next time . |
| 29 | I was not to work again full time until the end of 1988 . |
| 30 | When they finally said goodnight outside the hotel it was with a vague arrangement to meet again some time . |