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 ! |