Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 2 | COVER DRAWING FOR OUR TIME |
| 3 | And he a writer , not minding about his time . |
| 4 | But if I went to Joyce and told him that his men were doing something that was n't fair to the police , trying us too hard or interfering with our time off , he 'd have his men right off that job in half an hour and there 'd be no grumbling . ’ |
| 5 | the , what Daniel wrote there it 's happening in our time |
| 6 | happening in our time but , but and you think of what it says in Two Timothy with the |
| 7 | Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time . |
| 8 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 9 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 10 | The afternoon was cold and raw , and I soon regretted my choice of clothing , a light linen suit dating from my time in this country . |
| 11 | While I 'm paying for your time , we 'll discuss whatever I think necessary , ’ and if that was n't enough to send her temper soaring , ‘ So , for a start , you can begin by telling me why , when I know as fact that two men at least hang their hat up in your home , you 're so intent — the glasses , the schoolmarm hairstyle — on living up to the Miss Frostbite label they 've pinned on you here ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If we had n't come to an agreement , you 'd be paying for my time as well . ’ |
| 13 | In addition to fulfilling its primary function ( ie providing support for elderly persons in a residential setting ) , the manager is also concerned with all the financial aspects of the home ; with equipment purchases , catering , maintenance of premises and gardens ; deploying staff , accounting for their time and arranging appropriate payments ; resolving personnel matters , and so on . |
| 14 | Getting near her time again , is n't she ? , |
| 15 | ‘ Ee — well , it 's getting near my time for going home , I think I 'd better be making a move … ’ |
| 16 | The other word , kairos , is a word that is used a great deal to describe God 's breaking into our time and history to bring his salvation . |
| 17 | He cites Luthce 's ability to claim that truth was ‘ immanent ’ in the text of the bible as being associated with the growth of printing in his time ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The players I think are worth considering from my time as a Leeds supporter are |
| 19 | The past two centuries have seen the gradual evolution of separate educational establishments catering from their time of inception for identifiable disabilities and categories of handicap ( Warnock Report 1978 ) . |
| 20 | Is n't it actually what they are doing with their time that counts ? |
| 21 | We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming . |
| 22 | To get past your enemy you must crouch , jump or climb , depending on which time zone you 're in. the shoot-'em-up duels take place in the air , allowing full-screen movement with wraparound . |
| 23 | Obviously there 's some depending when they , depending on what time of the year you will get some of the savings . |
| 24 | Perhaps we could have dinner out first depending on what time it starts . |
| 25 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 26 | ‘ Since you remember those moments we shared so vividly , my prowess as a lover must have left some impression on you , ’ he gritted toughly , then , his eyes glinting dangerously , he told her , straight from the shoulder , ‘ Though in actual fact I was n't talking of our time on your bed , but of your interest in my financial standing ! ’ |
| 27 | It provides for both Britain and France a unique representative picture of the quality of family life and how it has been changing in our time . |
| 28 | It seems to me that , if we are spending £3 million on training someone to fly a fast jet and if , when he leaves the force — there are a lot of people leaving before their time is up — he is not being used in the reserve forces , that is a tremendous waste of a national resource . |
| 29 | Tim Brighouse ( 1990 ) , referring to his time as Chief Education Officer in Oxfordshire , has pointed out how the selection of a performance indicator by the LEA can have a marked effect on practice in schools : the decline in the use of corporal punishment accelerated noticeably when schools were asked to submit figures relating to its use . |
| 30 | ‘ No , I can see what this means : it 's the end of beating in our time . ’ |