Example sentences of "[verb] up the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 2 | Build up the time you spend in the sun slowly — start with 10 minutes and increase gradually . |
| 3 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 4 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 5 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 6 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'll make up the time , I promise . ’ |
| 8 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 9 | This is what you were saying about buying up the time , John in a way , is n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ In one week , ’ she said , reckoning up the time . |
| 11 | That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 13 | I have details here of scores of cases , but as I can not take up the time of the House in referring to all of them , I will pick one or two examples . |
| 14 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 15 | Anyway , if I am to maintain my hectic schedule of conquests , I can do without the interference of these guys taking up the time and energy of foxy babes with mere talk . |
| 16 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 17 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 18 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 19 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 20 | Divide up the time available for the question , so that your answer , though short , is still properly proportioned . |
| 21 | This strand urged instead the workhouse school , the school of industry , where useful accomplishments like spinning would fill up the time . |
| 22 | The counsellor was conscious that Susie had said nothing , while Peter had taken up the time . |
| 23 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 24 | On the other hand , an employer who dismisses a redundant employee for going on strike during his notice period will still have to make him a redundancy payment unless he serves a ‘ notice of extension ’ in accordance with the Consolidation Act requiring him to make up the time lost through the strike . |
| 25 | The orders were very strict that one could not move off until the oil temperature was above the minimum and on this occasion I was quite determined to make up the time . |
| 26 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 27 | Viewers were therefore happy with a mixed diet , rather as though , in a public library , they sometimes picked up The Times , sometimes the Daily Mail , sometimes the Sun . |
| 28 | Was it used to say keep keep saying buy up the time buy up the time ? |
| 29 | Was it used to say keep keep saying buy up the time buy up the time ? |
| 30 | So so there I will always remind you Peter says , I will always remind you of this things that if you buy up the time |