Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 3 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 4 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 5 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 6 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 7 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group . |
| 10 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Why do we need to change the time period ? |
| 14 | This meant he would need to double the time to twenty days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So training we do need to make the time otherwise it does become a catch twenty two situation . |
| 17 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |
| 18 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 19 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 21 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
| 22 | Additional capacitors could also be used to increase the time period . |
| 23 | But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this . |
| 24 | Since a knowledge of could be used to trace the time path of money wages , , and since the magnitudes of X L and its twin X G could be explained by reference to the income-expenditure model , the Keynesian system was no longer underdetermined : the number of variables equalled the number of independent equations . |
| 25 | ‘ The bright child is not going to get the time or flexibility to study things that will develop his own personal , social or moral education . |
| 26 | It happened to me when I was sort of looking at some sort of electronic engineering that I was n't supposed to be doing I was just looking at it for interest like Well I 'd like to have the time to spend on that but I 'll leave that thank you very much . |
| 27 | What might have they have had to measure the time as it passed ? |
| 28 | Today I 've been thinking to myself , I 've only got the sleeves to put in that dress — when am I going to have the time to do it' ? |
| 29 | If you look at the industry as a whole , there 's obviously the problem that by producing so much more content that people are are simply not going to have the time to get through it . |
| 30 | It 's an excellent idea , and sadly one that only custom builders — and one must include Jackson here , as Jackson include the feature on their ‘ custom ’ guitars — seem to have the time to implement properly . |