Example sentences of "[vb pp] the time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 2 | It is believed he thought he could no longer be charged over the under-age sex given the time that had elapsed . |
| 3 | Henry Parris , tutor-organiser for Northamptonshire who had previously served in a similar capacity in Yorkshire North District , also acknowledged that most of his organising work could have been done by voluntary members , given the time and opportunity to travel around the county . |
| 4 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 5 | ‘ When the ref makes the scrum come up and back again , like in the Moore case , the packs must be given the time and position to reset properly . |
| 6 | Even if teachers were given the time and opportunity to develop their professional lives in the ways they felt most suitable , the questions and dilemmas that face them are so many and so deep that it is indeed a daunting task . |
| 7 | The senior nurse in the Planning Unit or another suitable senior nurse should be given the time and authority to carry out an establishment " exercise throughout the Health Authority . |
| 8 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 9 | Given the time and resources available to the project it was agreed that we should concentrate on the topics shown in Figure 1 . |
| 10 | In between were dozens of movies whose heroines were all the things the rest of us knew we could be , given the time and the place . |
| 11 | Harvey thrust him aside and , with a gallantry which began even to him to appear to be excessively foolish , given the time and place , dragged Amaranth from the clutches of the mob . |
| 12 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 13 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 14 | I am convinced that we shall have adequate time to discuss the Bill and that because we have organised the time and allocated it we shall have a higher quality of debate . |
| 15 | Spain 's dominant classes were therefore permitted the time and opportunity for marshalling their powerful opposition to the very measures that were intended to weaken them . |
| 16 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 17 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 18 | I have not had the time or sometimes the knowledge to identify all the organisms I found , but the species list to date ( Tables I and 2 ) totals 1731 . |
| 19 | The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them . |
| 20 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 21 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 22 | Somebody ought to do a research project into it ; the answers are all there to be unearthed , if you 've got the time and the energy . ’ |
| 23 | IF YOU 'VE GOT THE TIME AND PATIENCE , WHY NOT GO FOR A SPOT OF DIY ! |
| 24 | At the same time he has no political authority , er , representing as it were the British government , he 's just an individual of stature , and he 's got the time and the energy to do it . |
| 25 | but I might not pass , I have n't got the time and difficult when I 'm working I ca n't |
| 26 | Well that 's it , it 's like my husband I mean he 's working , he has n't got the time and I |
| 27 | Charlton 's has n't got the time or inclination to wonder what Billy Bingham is thinking about in the run-up to Wednesday 's big game . |
| 28 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 29 | Nobody had counted the time or the trouble . |
| 30 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |