Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also been criticized fiercely by philosophers for using imaginary time . |
| 2 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 3 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 4 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 5 | The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season . |
| 6 | Wilkinson has notched three goals in as many games after scoring 24 times last term . |
| 7 | After waiting some time , instead of going to my bedroom and packing again , as before dinner I 'd been so certain , at last , of being able to do , I went in search of him . |
| 8 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 9 | The pattern is that an innovative company , after spending much time and money on a technically successful development embodying new technology , puts a first generation product on the market . |
| 10 | After spending some time , often years , with us , people move on to other things and we need to fill the gaps . ’ |
| 11 | After spending some time with the injured fan , Baggio said that if there was any violence during last Sunday 's game between the same two sides he would ask to be substituted . |
| 12 | The descriptions were perfect , even to George 's crooked thumb , but it was rumoured that they had fled north to Newcastle after spending some time in the Midlands . |
| 13 | After spending some time in an all-night diner on 42nd Street , a calculatedly unshaven Dustin just melted into the atmosphere . |
| 14 | After spending some time there ( as if we were actually present ) we will gradually come back to the present day , and as we do so we will become more reflective and try and push the present away from us — making it strange — by maintaining a certain distance from our immediate history . |
| 15 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 16 | After spending some time at 's at Mundford , transferred to Eagle Mill in the early '70s and has been with us ever since . |
| 17 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 18 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | It was a day for remembering old times and old friends . |
| 20 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 21 | Instead of devoting more time and money to the inherently unlikely possibility that this organism alone among replicating particles contains no nucleic acids , researchers should concentrate on cracking its tough proteinaceous capsule . |
| 22 | The grants will contribute towards the cost of financing extra time spent helping people with special needs to sustain their tenancy . |
| 23 | Students , feeling it their duty to point out the shortcomings of policies and personalities in Chinese politics , exercised their traditional custom of remonstrating several times throughout Deng 's decade of reform . |
| 24 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 25 | Young men who had a maximum oral hygiene index of 6 had a risk of dying 3.4 times higher than those who had a hygiene index of 0 . |
| 26 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 27 | Sometimes an extremely simple technique is sufficient — for example Coveney ( 1986 ) reports that he obtained enough data to allow him to study quantitatively different ways of expressing future time in the French verb , simply by asking speakers about their plans for the future . |
| 28 | Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve . |
| 29 | But any hopes they had of forcing extra time ended when Andy Comyn shot wide with the goal at his mercy . |
| 30 | Ivey suggested that consultants were a way of expanding available time without incurring an increase in fixed costs . |