Example sentences of "[verb] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 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 | The top reporters may not be able to spare the time and you could end up with the story being written by someone rather less familiar with the subject , whereas a quick telephone call or fax could mean that the story gets to the person you want . |
| 4 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 5 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 6 | At the least , Dr Mathew 's computer-instrument will put music within the grasp of would-be musicians who lack the time or inclination to learn how to play . |
| 7 | For the absolute beginner and those who lack the time or enthusiasm , the selection of a remedy can take place by considering primarily the very important symptoms of the remedies which have been printed in bold type , ignoring all the information in ordinary type . |
| 8 | The problem with environmental legislation of every kind is that , while we all applaud the intentions , we know automatically that the large-scale offenders have their own scientists , barristers , public-relations campaigns and representation in the House of Lords , that government inspectorates are hopelessly understaffed , and that consequently , at a local level , the enforcers concentrate their attention on the small fry who lack the time and resources to answer back . |
| 9 | Gertie still looked after Victoria , using the time that her charge spent in the schoolroom to attend to her clothes — washing , brushing and replacing buttons . |
| 10 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 11 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 12 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 13 | ‘ When the ref makes the scrum come up and back again , like in the Moore case , the packs must be given the time and position to reset properly . |
| 14 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 15 | The senior nurse in the Planning Unit or another suitable senior nurse should be given the time and authority to carry out an establishment " exercise throughout the Health Authority . |
| 16 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 17 | Given the time and resources available to the project it was agreed that we should concentrate on the topics shown in Figure 1 . |
| 18 | In between were dozens of movies whose heroines were all the things the rest of us knew we could be , given the time and the place . |
| 19 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 20 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 21 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 22 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 24 | One person may wish to dedicate more of his time to other pursuits and therefore accept the authority of a reasonably just and competent government over a whole range of issues regarding which another may prefer to decide for himself , and be willing to invest the time and effort it takes to enable himself to decide wisely . |
| 25 | The most important thing in socialising is that you make the time and spend the effort to keep those friends that you do have . |
| 26 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 27 | If I worked hard and cracked the Agenda system , I would end up either having to spend a lot of money to continue , or seeing the time and work wasted . |
| 28 | The person concerned will obviously know the time and property concerned . |
| 29 | The real losers are the ‘ transport poor ’ ( chapter 6 ) , and the reason for this is that official estimates of the costs of key settlement policies do not generally include the time and money costs of individuals . |
| 30 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |