Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " We ca n't have you fainting away every time we go to an auto-da-fé . " |
| 6 | These demonstrations serve to emphasise the importance of moving forwards every time the glider is stalled . |
| 7 | I was very lucky in having both the time to spare , and all the storage space I needed , courtesy of an understanding neighbour . |
| 8 | A KWVR member and computer programmer has designed a sophisticated program that is cutting significantly the time taken to process bookings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |