Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we take breaks — when I 'm at home or on vacation — my chops go down drastically because I 'm enjoying my free time and doing things I do n't usually have time to do . |
| 2 | ‘ Then why are you wasting my valuable time , mademoiselle ? |
| 3 | ‘ Everythin' has its own time , ’ he whispered and he blushed . |
| 4 | For days before Hallowe'en several men devoted their spare time to preparing the track ; the grass was trimmed , weeds and stones removed , hollows and gullies washed out by the rain were filled and the whole course was meticulously surveyed for snags and bumps . |
| 5 | Her father and mother objected to the way she used her spare time . |
| 6 | She used her weeping time before sleep for long conversations inside her head in which she began to make sense of what had happened . |
| 7 | Whilst the partnership agreement may well expressly or by implication prohibit a partner from becoming involved in other ( non-competing ) business in an attempt to secure his full time devotion to the firm , breach of such provision will not result in the offending partner becoming accountable in respect of profits earned from that other business . |
| 8 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 9 | From 1863 onwards he devoted his spare time to opening the barrows with which the Yorkshire wolds were strewn , sometimes with his younger brother Robert . |
| 10 | He calculated that he would be able to meet all his daily and official duties if he devoted his entire time to them , and abandoned any attempt at his own writing , but this he was determined not to do . |
| 11 | So Abdullah Muhammad was a policeman in Tazarbu , and in 1978–9 used his spare time to build a mosque in Wadi district , for which the landowning lineage paid him . |
| 12 | All ends happily , with a splendid scene of Anglo-French entente where the aged earl of Oxford decides to pass his remaining time in the company of his English daughter and French son-in-law , spending two years at Dammartin and two years in England by turns . |
| 13 | You 'll have a phone call from there letting you know our estimated time of arrival . |
| 14 | Actually , we have earned our quiet time , for six months continuously in action is enough for anybody … ’ |
| 15 | The project has caused schools to give priority consideration to their libraries , to invest their own time , resources , and energy in bringing their institution to the threshold of project involvement , to establish appropriate committees , and to undertake the difficult business of planning and producing a proposal . |
| 16 | Apart from the deadlines created hy husbands ' and children 's needs , she imposes her own time pressures ; these follow from the way she organizes her work and the kind of standards she sets herself . |
| 17 | It will also help you to keep track of how they are using their free time |
| 18 | So the family overstayed its permitted time and then left , not for the United States but for Galway , without notifying the authorities . |
| 19 | ‘ You got her last time , wait for somebody else . ’ |
| 20 | Mrs Coates said : ‘ We have had a lot of support getting this set up , many local firms have contributed and a lot of people have given their free time . |
| 21 | Given their short time in port , members continued to be disappointed when instant success eluded them . |
| 22 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 23 | ‘ The rich trash pay the bills , Mr Breakspear , which lets me give my spare time away to the poor trash . ’ |
| 24 | They both allow people to choose their own time horizons , which can be anything from two to 25 years . |
| 25 | Individuals should also have the right to choose their own time of retirement . |
| 26 | This has the obvious advantage that all countries match their local time to the hours of daylight , but it also means that different countries have different local times . |
| 27 | Most of the possible legal moves in a chess position have simple refutations ; refusing to go beyond those refutations should allow a machine to screen out enormous numbers of possibilities , and focus its evaluating time on just those moves about which there are serious questions . |
| 28 | ‘ My original recreation was riding , ’ said the amiable grandfather , who recalled his first time on a horse at the age of eight a wooden horse at Middletonin-Teesdale show . |
| 29 | The display refresh time is around 80 ms which limits our real time frame rate to a maxmum of three frames per second . |
| 30 | In other words , by planning and timetabling , you organize your present time in order to have future time . |