Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 7 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 8 | I really do n't I think he 's acting the whole time , I do n't think he knows he 's doing it . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 11 | Patients were asked to empty their bladder before going to bed , noting the precise time and discarding the urine . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Your GP may be able to offer out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 15 | Your GP may be able to off out-of-work-hours cervical screening and you should ask your employer about workplace screening or getting the necessary time off to have it done . |
| 16 | Oh you just keep moving the whole time . |
| 17 | And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered . |
| 18 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 19 | All radiofacsimile stations transmitting meteorological information are covered with complete schedules giving the exact time of transmission and the contents of the various charts . |
| 20 | Well I think so , I think erm as long as they can go and work with children and then they 've got the time when they can leave off and come , but it 's having the whole time , well then they 've children all their life have n't they ? |
| 21 | Now when they cuts the roads every week if there was a watch as you go by , you see them cutting the whole time with a tractor . |
| 22 | In this phase it is well worth cutting the running time down , in order to spend 10 minutes on a thorough stretching programme . |
| 23 | Not all of us like using woodworking machines , and do not mind spending the extra time achieving results which may be less perfect and mechanical-looking . |
| 24 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 25 | Each job is represented by a horizontal bar on a time base , the length of the bar indicating the estimated time for the job . |
| 26 | However , the existence of market imperfections results in the social opportunity rate exceeding the social time preference rate . |
| 27 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 28 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |
| 29 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 30 | ‘ Everything around playing has to be organised very carefully and he has to be mature in choosing the right time to play off the court . |