Example sentences of "[prep] time [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er , it 's not pleasant for them , and they 're doing it in wet weathers , but I mean whatever erm , I find for them you know , to wear , I mean , time after time they get their feet down and slip and get them in . |
| 2 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 3 | If you study the long-term unemployed , sadly what happens is they lose their job or they do n't get employment , and eventually they keep working hard , right , but after the period of time they get dispirited when they find that people are not willing to take them on , and of course it 's a terrible thing for them to cope with . |
| 4 | For behaviours which do not have obvious start and finish points , watching television or paying attention to a lesson for example , it is more appropriate to measure the length of time they last . |
| 5 | Clients are charged for the amount of time they take up , including the length of the interview and any telephone calls . |
| 6 | Taking into account the length for the length of the features and the cons the consultation that take place and the length of time they take , I do not expect to see er Bungay bypass construction for some time yet , but I do expect the County Council to progress on that in such a manner that Bungay will not grind to a halt . |
| 7 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 8 | Not too much has been done in the mountains , hardly surprising given the length of time they have been dry , but Dai Lampard snatched a great ascent with Mother of Mercy E5 6a . |
| 9 | The length of time they have been waiting for a house or factors such as overcrowding and damp are far more important than marital status , Mrs Smith said . |
| 10 | The new measures will bring the UK more into line with other western governments ' statistical bureaux that limit both the number of ministers with access to figures and the amount of time they have to consider them . |
| 11 | of time they do n't do it . |
| 12 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |
| 13 | Glasses are not particularly stable materials , and in the course of time they devitrify , acquiring a micro-crystalline structure , and losing their glassy transparency . |
| 14 | Most have bodies with a skin so soft , thin and permeable that if they are exposed to direct sunshine for any length of time they dry out and die . |
| 15 | The age at which children go to school , the amount of time they spend there and the disposition of that time have the very greatest bearing on the learning that is planned and provided for them . |
| 16 | The includers are not always merely disinterested advocates of a philosophy , but people who have become so through experience , through the sheer amount of time they spend with members of the excluded social group . |
| 17 | If doctors are employed in a unit the amount of time they spend with a patient may be as little as fifteen minutes twice a week for a short-term attender and an astonishingly low four or five minutes per week for a long-term attender . |
| 18 | As Bennett ( 1978 , 1987 ) points out , one of the most important determinants of pupils ' learning is simply the amount of time they spend in it . |
| 19 | Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors . |
| 20 | For there would be some temporal duration represented by each revolution of the wheel and a certain number of these revolutions would still take place in the interval of time we call a day , even though the motion of the sun had ceased . |
| 21 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 22 | ‘ In that relatively short space of time we have established ourselves as a vital source of providing banking services to local people . |
| 23 | That was until Ronnie McFall came to Shamrock Park and in a short space of time we have won the League two years on the trot , runner-up last season and challenging strongly again this season . |
| 24 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 25 | When you have used a certain rod for any length of time you become accustomed to its ‘ feel ’ . |
| 26 | But really it 's a waste of time you know |
| 27 | At this keyword you must specify the time at which you wish LIFESPAN RDBI to run ( start time ) , the amount of time you wish it to run for ( duration ) , and the time at which you wish it to be re-scheduled ( repeat time ) . |
| 28 | The length of time you wish to be excused classes |
| 29 | The length of time you hold it down determines the strength of the kick . |
| 30 | From your time sheet covering three typical days add up the amount of time you 've spent on all these activities/jobs . |