Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] 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 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 The expected decline in services may simply mean that we come to regret the time when we felt that having a significant manufacturing base was an optional extra we could do without .
13 However , the future has to be built on a clear understanding of the new power relationships ; there can be little progress or security if foundation stones are laid on the shifting sands of discontent which campaign against or refuse to acknowledge the times in which the education service is being delivered .
14 We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment .
15 Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work .
16 To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value .
17 and er I only have to mention the time though , oh dear
18 But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that .
19 ‘ To integrate the information for each line , we have to take the time to make sure we have all of the elements necessary to verify the bills electronically , ’ Gilmont said .
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