Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Architects on both sides of the wall are worried that racing to provide the new capital , the politicians are not taking time to consult Berlin 's architects about the problems on either side of the wall . |
| 2 | You 're just wasting time . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're just wasting time . |
| 4 | ‘ He and I are always spending time together but we are not romantically inclined , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The board 's chairman , Lord Carlisle , said : ‘ We are still marking time . |
| 6 | The two little waltzes are also allowed time to speak . |
| 7 | But he are n't got time at work see ? |
| 8 | At last the witch became angry , and said , " You are simply wasting time ! |
| 9 | They are simply marking time , waiting for fashion futures to be decided elsewhere . |
| 10 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 11 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |
| 12 | ‘ What we have sought to do ’ , claims Francis speaking for the organisers of the exhibition , ‘ is not to reconstruct time past but to expose to the light things that have run the risk of acquiring the patina of nostalgia and the glamour of neglect . ’ |
| 13 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 14 | Despite its unlikely new role producing computer-oriented clones of Sir John Harvey-Jones , Softwright is clearly marking time , waiting for customers to start moving again . |
| 15 | It offers about one hour 's straight playing time per side . |
| 16 | He 's speaking of this time now and this age when it is now harvest time . |
| 17 | Britain 's most exclusive clockmaker is about to call time on his business — because of the recession . |
| 18 | I was just killing time . |
| 19 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 20 | The gulls that screeched warning to their fellows as she approached too near their territory frightened her , but since this was not nesting time , none spat . |
| 21 | It was one of the biggest deals I had ever done and it was also harvest time . |
| 22 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 23 | He was simply buying time . |
| 24 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 25 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |