Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When icing has already formed give time for the heat to take effect . |
| 2 | I 've had to take time off work to get my ticket . |
| 3 | So today it was lessons at home for some of the class provided by parents who 'd had to take time off work . |
| 4 | FURIOUS Murrayfield Racers boss Robert Adams is set to call time on top referee George Nicolson , whose handling of Sunday 's game with arch rivals Fife Flyers incensed him . |
| 5 | Ordinary life was halted to allow time for realization of the sorrow to penetrate the layers of defence that we all set up to blunt the terrible pain of loss . |
| 6 | The meeting was then adjourned to allow time for further consideration . |
| 7 | The truth was that Mauve only wanted to spend time on a large painting of sailing barges which he was getting ready for an exhibition . |
| 8 | He could not imagine finding tranquillity of soul in old age ; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well , one might suddenly achieve equilibrium , certainty , serenity . |
| 9 | It had been meant to give time for negotiation if there were problems about their proposed campaign . |
| 10 | She 's been their senior presenter for ten years now , handling everything from live interviews to those awful moments when a filmed report is suddenly dropped and she is left to fill time with cheerily improvised observations — ‘ that 's when I really earn my money . ’ |
| 11 | Hitherto she had been so tied up in the day-to-day mechanics of the company that she was often forced to consider time for research as a luxury . |
| 12 | Although the attempt ended in failure , he is not bitter and has continued to devote time to Scottish Institute affairs — unlike some of his other campaign colleagues . |
| 13 | The bid to crack the American market had n't worked , as Isidore Ostrer explained , due to ‘ the fact that we are not accorded playing time in the most important situations , these being almost exclusively controlled by American producing interests . ’ |
| 14 | For six years , they cheerfully raked in premiums for policies which paid the mortgage if you were made redundant or forced to take time off work because of sickness or accident . |
| 15 | Provoked by abrupt intimacy with a complete stranger who then turned out to be someone she was forced to spend time with , forced to establish a formal business relationship with … ? |
| 16 | First , the nominee must advise the court if a creditors ' meeting should be summoned ; if so , then the period of the interim order is extended to give time for the meeting to take place . |
| 17 | ‘ I was determined to have time with Maisie . ’ |
| 18 | Pedro Fernández Dittus was not , however , required to spend time in detention but merely to present himself to the authorities once a week . |