Example sentences of "[conj] [art] time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 2 | That 's the time you 're going to get up or the time you 're going to leave ? |
| 3 | He imagined a nightmare scene where every time you blinked , or blew your nose , or scratched an itch , the auctioneer would up the price , until you found you had paid eight thousand pounds for a snooker ball . |
| 4 | Baker considers the biblical theme of ‘ kairos ’ , the time ( unlike normal linear time ) in which action is demanded or a time which is opportune . |
| 5 | ‘ Except the time she said she wished she were a boy … |
| 6 | The cost of recruitment should not be underestimated nor the time it takes from the decision to recruit to the new staff member joining . |
| 7 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 8 | The inconvenience which this causes can normally be reduced only by delaying the binding of serial parts until they can be considered to be no longer ‘ current ’ , or by ensuring that the time which they spend off the shelves ‘ at binding ’ exceeds by as small a margin as possible the time required physically to bind them . |
| 9 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
| 10 | I think there are many advantages to returning to work in addition to the fact that the time you spend with your child is so much more special and pleasurable . |
| 11 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 12 | She said she said for the first week you unwind , I thought if we have a weeks holiday that means that the time you unwind you 're back to work again ! |
| 13 | i find that the time I spend with Danielle now is action packed and full of play , kisses and cuddles and more stimulating for us both than it was previously . |
| 14 | And it was just me arm and me hand and me face that were were burnt and and at that the time I mean I was n't in any pain and I think there was more serious ones to be dealt with . |
| 15 | But she was not a business executive for nothing , and , since it went without saying that the time he could spare her from his day was limited , she placed the buff folder down upon the desk and without more ado began , ‘ The Palmer & Pearson file . |
| 16 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 17 | For every evening wasted in the contemplation of Tubular Bells we spent no more than the time it takes to finish a vodka-and-lime soaking up Sugar Baby Love by the Rubettes . |
| 18 | A lot faster than the time it takes to tell ! ’ |
| 19 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never been more depressed than the time I was sent off against Hibs . |
| 21 | I could remember nothing further back than the time I was walking over that miserable plain . |
| 22 | Although the time she spends actively involved in teaching may be limited , she can , through her organisation of nursing care , facilitate teaching by others . |
| 23 | It takes much cranking of the engine with the starter motor to get going again — although the time it takes to fire up does vary . |
| 24 | Although the time it takes an egg to travel from the ovary to the womb can be five to eight days , the egg itself can only be fertilised in the first 6–24 hours following ovulation . |
| 25 | So we 're not saying that every time somebody dreams about an umbrella it means erm that , wh what he was saying is er that kind of visual symbolism often does stand for in this case erm the male genital , but it need not . |
| 26 | It would be very unfair to er Margaret that every time somebody called she 's got , she 's banished to the kitchen . |
| 27 | ‘ E 's gettin' too big fer 'is boots , demandin' this an' that every time 'e enters the 'ouse . |
| 28 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 29 | Clearly , I do n't want to see us having just an open ended thing , that every time they get into trouble , we bail them out , but I do think that we need to give breathing space now , until we can come with a , a , a decent set of proposals for the future of the building . |
| 30 | And I feel sorry for the officers ' families who have to know that every time they go to work they 're in this sort of danger . |