Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the time " in BNC.

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1 IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman .
2 The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time .
3 The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group .
4 If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger
5 Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show .
6 They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem .
7 IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York .
8 Forces , being a smallish town and by no means a city , the passing of street pleasantries is not quite the folk art it is in villages but people still enjoy passing the time of day with their neighbours .
9 It 's an excellent idea , and sadly one that only custom builders — and one must include Jackson here , as Jackson include the feature on their ‘ custom ’ guitars — seem to have the time to implement properly .
10 This is a popular theme , as children enjoy telling the time .
11 The staff at Inside Job like to take the time to help each customer select the appropriate style , fabric , carpet , wallpaper , paint , upholstery and any other soft furnishings that are needed .
12 She came home in despair and went back to the clinic to work rather than spend the Sunday alone , or try to pass the time with friends .
13 Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy .
14 Do take the time to monitor your progress with the aerobic exercises and enter the details each day .
15 If you do take the time to read a book on body language , be warned : a lot of it is theory , and theories are often wrong .
16 If you are a stand-alone system then take advantage of programs like Suitcase and Font/DA Juggler but do take the time to read the manuals otherwise you can end up with a worse problem than you started with .
17 Well , of course , we do have The Times dear !
18 I do have the time .
19 ‘ You 'll learn quickly when you do have the time , ’ Helen said .
20 ‘ You do have the time , ’ Jane pointed out .
21 It 's quite obvious I must cancel the Express and start taking The Times .
22 Well I think changing the time might bring about .
23 We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud .
24 Erm we 've done the time there .
25 But I 've seen the time it was .
26 Oh aye , I 've seen the time it was .
27 Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs .
28 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 . ’
29 That I 've got the time is a bloody disaster .
30 IF YOU 'VE GOT THE TIME AND PATIENCE , WHY NOT GO FOR A SPOT OF DIY !
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