Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm phoning to arrange a time … |
| 2 | Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time |
| 3 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 4 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 5 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 6 | The course was designed to increase the times from the 100 seconds or so we usually get at Peterborough with one section working upstream on the jet . |
| 7 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 8 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 9 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 10 | And yet she felt bound to warn , ‘ But , there has to come a time soon when you must let go of the past … or go to Richard and Beth with all that is in your heart . ’ |
| 11 | Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started . |
| 12 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 13 | To take a simple example , the Social Science Data Archive at Essex has a fine run of survey data from Family Expenditure Survey and General Household Survey well suited to the needs of those who want to create a time series as a part of current social science analysis . |
| 14 | The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group . |
| 15 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 16 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 17 | They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem . |
| 18 | We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better . |
| 19 | The Digital Compression Facility — which runs at seven to nine frames a second — is designed to shorten the time taken to hours from days of encoding digital movies for rapid decompression in applications such as video-on-demand and CD-ROM recording . |
| 20 | Why do we need to change the time period ? |
| 21 | This meant he would need to double the time to twenty days . |
| 22 | Yeah you want to have a time to go to bed . |
| 23 | Staff , though , do need to have the time and resources to so keep up with their field of study that they are immersed in its conversations . |
| 24 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
| 25 | So training we do need to make the time otherwise it does become a catch twenty two situation . |
| 26 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |
| 27 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 28 | Er , we said something about for a , we do n't want to set a time period on it do we ? |
| 29 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 30 | We are frequently presented with data consisting of observations at successive points of time ; such data are said to form a time series . |