Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timescale , , for the instability of the boundary layer to occur is given by the time taken for conduction to thicken the local boundary layer to this mean thickness The two different regimes can be separated by equating the settling time , /v S to the convective boundary-layer timescale , . |
| 2 | They were there checking the whole time . |
| 3 | At 1.15 a.m. ( becoming a favourite time ) Baldwin again saw the TUC and ‘ with great regret ’ in effect dismissed them . |
| 4 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 5 | But worries over its future have been allayed after Darlington college stepped in to subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher at the unit to ensure it can continue its daytime classes . |
| 6 | Darlington college has now agreed it will subsidise the cost of employing a full time teacher so daytime classes can continue . |
| 7 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 8 | He is playing , passing the tedious time while there 's virtually no fighting and very little manoeuvring and while he wants none , but is uneasy being still . |
| 9 | Harbury asked , remembering the previous time he had visited the flat when Oliver had encouraged him to stay and Rain had encouraged him to go . |
| 10 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 11 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 12 | I really do n't I think he 's acting the whole time , I do n't think he knows he 's doing it . |
| 13 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 14 | One such band , Victim , made the break from their native Belfast and fell into a false sense of security by capturing a small time record contract with Tony Davidson's ' T.J.M. Label . |
| 15 | One of them upstairs is avin' a bad time , and ‘ er only fourteen , too . ’ |
| 16 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 17 | Sheila 's havin' a good time and she 's getting a bit of money too . |
| 18 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 19 | Patients were asked to empty their bladder before going to bed , noting the precise time and discarding the urine . |
| 20 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 21 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 22 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 23 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 24 | I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 26 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 27 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 28 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 29 | Stella kept them waiting a long time , and when she did appear she sprinted off down the street ahead of them . |
| 30 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |