Example sentences of "[verb] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clock face is painted white and so stands out clearly from quite a distance , allowing the time to be easily read . |
| 2 | She could spare the time for France . |
| 3 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 4 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
| 5 | Perhaps we 'll have some tennis , if old Rodge here can spare the time from his blessed cows . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , they have not really the transport for a journey as far as this and in any case , they could not spare the time from work . ’ |
| 7 | She came when it suited her , when she could spare the time from her other work , but she always popped in on Monday afternoons to make a start on the ironing . |
| 8 | I was surprised she could spare the time in the middle of an election campaign and concluded it was genuinely urgent . |
| 9 | Puts watch on table and records the time on a pad . ) |
| 10 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 11 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
| 12 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 13 | We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud . |
| 14 | The Ellan Vannin Diaries have obligingly altered the time of their deliveries to a later hour in response to one or two complaints of sleep disturbance . |
| 15 | We bring the time of our people , resources in kind , and skills and expertise . |
| 16 | We judge the time of day by the relative positions of the hands against the scale of hours , minutes and seconds printed on the watch face . |
| 17 | All the meals are prepared together , arrive at the unit or ward together and are served together , thus using the time of chefs , porters and unit or ward staff in the most efficient way . |
| 18 | ( The arrow simply indicates that X precedes the time of observation . ) |
| 19 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 20 | Love C. ’ He appended the time of the best train . |
| 21 | When contracts were exchanged , the conditions of sale would stipulate the time for the delivery of an abstract and thereafter the time for the raising of requisitions upon it . |
| 22 | If you do n't make the time for training due to the work , pressures or deadlines or backlogs , and if you 're not training others they make mistakes do n't they ? |
| 23 | At the same time , Libet set up a procedure for allowing subjects to report the time at which they first experienced the conscious intention to act . |
| 24 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 25 | He took it home last night I w I got it going I got the time on it but I |
| 26 | Available evidence suggests that the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis could be augmented by shortening the time to treatment , by improving of the potency and specificity of fibrin-dissolving agents , by improving co-therapy with anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents , or by a combination of all of these . |
| 27 | He checked the time of arrival on a big gold bracelet watch , and there were handsome cuff-links with a shamrock in tiny emeralds in each shirt-sleeve . |
| 28 | Thus for or for or If t' represents the time with respect to a new origin taken at time so that , then and of course But Hence |
| 29 | I mean the time for you being adventurous was earlier , and I mean when you retire you 've got to think about capital er protection as well . |
| 30 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |