Example sentences of "[adv] of [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've taken up quite enough of your time , my dear cousin . ’ |
| 2 | The girl said she still thinks fondly of her time in England — but could not bear to stay at University College any longer . |
| 3 | Take an hour or so of your time , this morning . |
| 4 | Has anyone said to you ‘ It will not take up much of your time , only a couple of hours on a Friday evening ’ ? |
| 5 | Nasser was to be a figure not only of his time , but of his social background as wall . |
| 6 | STAFF at Darlington Hospice are delighted with the response to their appeal for voluntary receptionists , but would still welcome anyone else who can offer a little of their time . |
| 7 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 8 | I am sorry to disturb you , but Detective Chief Superintendent Milton has asked me to tell you , Mr Fishbane , that he would be grateful if you would be so kind as to spare him a little of your time . |
| 9 | Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time . |
| 10 | But he would give generously of his time to such organisations as the British Council , helping to audition young people with ambitions to dance . |
| 11 | He spoke movingly of his time in the trenches in the First War and of how a whole generation , many of them his friends , had been wiped out , of the effect that the unemployment of the 1930s had on his political thinking , of how being Prime Minister was less demanding than being an ordinary Minister , of ( and this with tears in his eyes ) his devotion to his late wife , who had fallen dead of a heart attack close to where we were sitting , of his belief in God . |
| 12 | I would like to give them more of my time . |
| 13 | They had a key and saw in deliveries of this and that — a couple of times , large van loads of furniture — and gave willingly of their time . |
| 14 | At the outset , my criterion was that each house should be unadulterated and purely of its time . |
| 15 | They have n't dated because they were never really of their time . ’ |
| 16 | What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car . |
| 17 | Perhaps they were just ahead of their time . |
| 18 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 19 | Like their Bristolian neighbours , the Frys , they were ahead of their time in fostering friendly relations with their factory workers . |
| 20 | In proposing a rupture between liberal internationalism and nationalist socialism , Hyndman and Blatchford were ahead of their time . |
| 21 | Poly Styrene wore plastic and shrieked , the lead singer of the phallocentrically named group Penetration was a woman called Pauline and there was the only all-female punk groups , The Slits , who were years ahead of their time , wearing girls ' dresses , subverting traditional female rock images and appearing on the cover of the NME dressed only in loincloths and smeared in mud . |
| 22 | Thucydides credited the Minoan kings with organizing the first naval fleet , and it is possible that the Minoans did indeed have a squadron of specially designed and equipped warships that were ahead of their time . |
| 23 | There were , in fact , at that time some outstanding teachers , educational innovators , who , in my opinion , were way ahead of their time and would be rarely equalled today . |
| 24 | But what put the grammarians millennia ahead of their time ? |
| 25 | Greenly , in addition to his Anglesey memoir , was the author of over fifty geological papers , several being conceptually far ahead of their time . |
| 26 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 27 | They are , as in this comparative example , often ahead of their time . |
| 28 | This sounds like a satirical whim ahead of its time , and certainly well beneath its victim 's cloud-capped head . |
| 29 | Yet it is Tacoma that is ahead of its time in its pioneering attempts to help drug addicts ( rather a lot of them among its 160,000 inhabitants ) from becoming AIDS sufferers as well . |
| 30 | Although this report was ahead of its time , it is also interesting in respect of the fact that it brought together both the traditional and new Liberals . |