Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 2 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 3 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 4 | Not neurotic , that , just a way of parcelling out the time , and doing everything I need to . |
| 5 | He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation |
| 6 | The nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation . |
| 7 | " We ca n't have you fainting away every time we go to an auto-da-fé . " |
| 8 | This is what you were saying about buying up the time , John in a way , is n't it ? |
| 9 | Securicor have joined the cowboys on the contract guarding and really I mean you must be getting sick of us getting up every time about security guards , but it 's an important problem and you must know that a lot of you must work at places where you 've got guards on the gate and we all should take a bit of interest in going to see these guards , find out that they 're working for two pound or two pound forty an hour , they 're working as many hours a week as they 'll actually work with no overtime rate , no night rate , no benefits worth having and I mean really I wish you 'd go to your companies and try and arrange site allowances , cos that 's the only way we 'll get any improvements , but when we talk about resolving grievances , we just took in Yorkshire region someone to a tribunal for constructive dismissal . |
| 10 | ‘ In one week , ’ she said , reckoning up the time . |
| 11 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 12 | And then you can think of I mean this is this is just sort it can be there to confuse you while you 're sorting out the time . |
| 13 | These demonstrations serve to emphasise the importance of moving forwards every time the glider is stalled . |
| 14 | It all ended well , undoubtedly helped by the fact that one positive feature could be highlighted , namely the support and sympathy shown by the Emperor during the Indian Mutiny , when he had offered to allow passage through France to British reinforcements so that they could embark at Toulon , thus cutting down the time required for the voyage to India . |
| 15 | The sand area will need stirring up every time you do a water change , so that it does n't get compacted and sour the tank . |
| 16 | I was very lucky in having both the time to spare , and all the storage space I needed , courtesy of an understanding neighbour . |
| 17 | See these these three neurons coming out every time one neutron goes in this chain reaction 's getting bigger and bigger . |
| 18 | A KWVR member and computer programmer has designed a sophisticated program that is cutting significantly the time taken to process bookings . |
| 19 | Anyway , if I am to maintain my hectic schedule of conquests , I can do without the interference of these guys taking up the time and energy of foxy babes with mere talk . |
| 20 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 21 | If the Home Secretary does not want the Bill to do serious damage to internal discipline in prisons , resulting in matters that should be dealt with by internal disciplinary procedures going to court and taking up the time of the criminal justice system — making it far more difficult for prison governors to run their prisons — he had better look again at that clause and amend it . |
| 22 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
| 23 | Like Gladys said , you felt your clothes falling off every time he looked at you . |
| 24 | Ken did , however , help Anita — with the ruby in her navel that kept falling out every time she did her belly dance . |
| 25 | Morais and Bertelson therefore carried out an experiment in which the apparent spatial localisation of a sound source was achieved by manipulating either the time or the intensity difference of the same stimulus heard at the two ears . |
| 26 | When cΔt exceeds Δr , the interval is positive and P 2 can be reached from P 1 by travelling at a velocity less than the speed of light ; the interval is called time-like because we can choose an inertial frame such that r 1 = r 2 leaving only a time separation between the two events . |
| 27 | It would be no good having a receptionist blacking out every time they jacked in . |
| 28 | For you , teacher , it is not just beating out the time , or keeping the class in order ; you must show a lively interest and response . |
| 29 | Readers were to be left with the impression that a ‘ woodchopper ’ beating out the time audibly and often was the inevitable result and proof of unmusical French ‘ good taste ’ : one preferring permanent metrical chaos . |