Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts on Wednesday , and , you know , I 'm taking time off from searching for props at the last minute and dress rehearsing to come and talk to you . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm wasting time . |
| 3 | So now and this is this one much like while I was taking time off |
| 4 | But sometimes there was an uneasy undercurrent to disturb the tranquillity — including , of course , the feeling that I was marking time while great and stirring events were in the offing — war , for instance . |
| 5 | I was marking time until something better came along |
| 6 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 7 | Alright , so , come and see me as soon as the problems start to emerge , and I can probably tell you that you 're , you 're wasting time and energy worrying about it , so |
| 8 | Certainly , I mean , something you should be aware of , however , if you 're using colour coding , if you 're using symbols and abbreviations , is the minute that you need a key to understand your own abbreviations and your , or what the colours mean , you 're wasting time . |
| 9 | You 're stealing time . |
| 10 | You 're losing time . |
| 11 | … welcome back … later on we 'll meet the ex con who 's doing time treading the boards … but first … sport and we 're off to the sunshine of Australia … to the heart of the outback to join Tim Russon |
| 12 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 13 | She has an Iranian husband who is doing time , and two children in juvenile custody . |
| 14 | And the fact that she was taking time off with her dyke lover offered more flexibility , more opportunities for invention . |
| 15 | She was wasting time . |
| 16 | She was wasting time here . |
| 17 | She had no evidence to connect the boy with Puddephat 's disappearance , and she was wasting time . |
| 18 | She was wasting time trying to rack her brains , and if there was one thing she hated doing , it was wasting time . |
| 19 | She was doing time for several rather serious drug-related offences . |
| 20 | We are wasting time ! |
| 21 | He explained : ‘ It 's a fairly lengthy report and we 're taking time to digest its contents . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We 're wasting time . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , we 're wasting time sitting here , ’ he said and stood up . |
| 24 | But we 're wasting time . |
| 25 | Well come on , we 're wasting time if you want your shoes . |
| 26 | Some thought we were wasting time , ’ says Solowka . |
| 27 | Yeah he 's er he 's nearly two and it 's a er they 're trying times . |
| 28 | They were entrancing times . |
| 29 | So now it 's touring time and in September I 'll be writing , then in October it 's back touring again . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's skraggin' time , ’ whooped Tundrish . |