Example sentences of "[verb] the time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised she could spare the time in the middle of an election campaign and concluded it was genuinely urgent . |
| 2 | has the time in that division has to put in |
| 3 | Two ELIZABETHANS passing the time in a place without any visible character . |
| 4 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 5 | Many would love to know , for instance , whether there any clocks in the White House which show the time in Moscow , or Warsaw , or Budapest , because people wonder why Mr Bush and Company appear to be falling so far behind in their reaction to the pace of life in those cities . |
| 6 | I just have n't been able to motivate myself to put the time in |
| 7 | Pouring out of thanks for the young Timothy who spent the time in prayer if you wish to say a short simple prayer of thanks do so end it thank you God and we 'll all join in thank you God . |
| 8 | Not least , it reduces the time in which the specification can be changed . |
| 9 | Not least , it reduces the time in which the specification can be changed . |
| 10 | Watches that tell the time in 18 different languages , make toast and have so many knobs and dials that the clock face is completely obscured . |
| 11 | The existing age of transfer was to be kept at eleven to keep the time in grammar school to at least four years , since the ‘ new ’ school leaving age was to be fifteen . |
| 12 | What you need to do is to decide how much time study requires and then find the time in the day to do it . |
| 13 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 14 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 15 | ‘ You thought I meant we should pass the time in bed , did n't you ? |
| 16 | To misjudge the time in which one lived might prove to be disastrous ’ ( Nolan 1976:74 ) . |
| 17 | Lady Thatcher remembered the time in the late 1970s when she had gone on television and warned that people were afraid of being ‘ swamped ’ by immigrants . |
| 18 | There was a clock on the tower of the Governor 's Palace which overlooked the square ( and a sundial which gave the time in Agra , Tobolsk , Isfahan and Moscow in the mornings and in Lima , Buenos Aires , Pico di Teneriffe , Lisbon , Paris and Rio in the afternoons ) . |
| 19 | and er I just have n't it 's like erm I just have n't put the time in |
| 20 | There is pressure to minimise the time in hospital . |