Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promise him that I am endeavouring to find time for a debate . |
| 2 | Nor did I need to buy time for anybody . |
| 3 | The few people walked swiftly , or tried to steal time from their employers , hurrying with assumed purpose when they caught sight of her or some other guard . |
| 4 | At two Best Western hotels , the Ivy House at Marlborough and the Spa at Tunbridge Wells , they propose to bide time with theme weekends on structuring a portfolio and sorting out options and warrants . |
| 5 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 6 | As a result , users are free to focus on high-level analysis , and do n't need to waste time on details , such as row or column management , usually necessary when manipulating a spreadsheet . |
| 7 | The only problem is , one of them 's still only thirteen and has to get time off school to play gigs . |
| 8 | However , they also want to spend time with their children . |
| 9 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 10 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 11 | After this , however , the child will need to spend time in consultation with the teacher and classmates , defining precise areas for subsequent investigation . |
| 12 | Neither of you should give up your friends , but you do need to make time for each other . |
| 13 | Then the leader needs to make time for members of the group to say what they are aiming at in their walk with God and to give time for mutual ministry and prayer . |
| 14 | After stating it , pause to give time for it to sink in . |
| 15 | In the office , like a typical Cancerian , he seemed to have time for just one thing . |
| 16 | On Sundays , when various other children , sons of friends of the Imperial family , came to spend time with the Prince , the Emperor and Empress made a point of being with them , sometimes taking part in the plays which the children acted . |
| 17 | As she told me : ‘ I had no question about saying straight away after our first picture together that Kenneth Williams was the one I would choose to spend time with on a desert island . ’ |
| 18 | The weed seemed to stop time within its boundaries . |
| 19 | Colombian and other diplomats at the Organisation of American States were furious at the legalistic wranglings the US delegation has been using to buy time at the OAS meetings in Washington . |
| 20 | But Carol and I never seem to get time to be able to do these things on each other , but we have had the treatment so we do know that massage really does help you to relax . |
| 21 | This is ridiculous I 'm not going to have time for lunch if I do n't go now … |
| 22 | I 've had to take time off work to get my ticket . |
| 23 | So today it was lessons at home for some of the class provided by parents who 'd had to take time off work . |
| 24 | It 's going to take time for you to get back to full strength and you 've no-one to blame but yourself . |
| 25 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 26 | Also the Opposition did not want to waste time on such minutiae , preferring to tackle the government on wider issues arising from the conduct of foreign or domestic policy . |
| 27 | There was nothing to indicate that he was anywhere in the village , and she did n't want to waste time on being any more thorough than this . |
| 28 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 29 | The application 's been made I did n't want to waste time before making the application and it had been |
| 30 | For me , a new and very delightful phase of life began , for I began to spend time with mothers of young children again . |