Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 3 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 4 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 6 | and asked to put the time signature in . |
| 7 | Kim began to study the time these meridians were formed in different species and in a way , echoing Burr 's reports , found that within the embryonic chick , for example , they manifested within fifteen hours of conception ! |
| 8 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 9 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 10 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 11 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 12 | Using workflow , one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days . |
| 13 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 14 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 15 | If you had to learn every time you could n't spot patterns you 'd never you 'd never be able to play football cos you 'd be you 'd always be a learner would n't you . |
| 16 | He worked out when he was born , wanted to know the time of day , when the worker would return and when he would see his wife again . |
| 17 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 18 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 19 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 20 | We collected our horses , took leave of Santerre and galloped down the frozen , cobbled track as if Mandeville intended to waste no time in reaching Glastonbury before nightfall . |