Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rejoined the sports club she used to belong to before she 'd allowed her membership to lapse during her time with Arnie . |
| 2 | At this stage she started to write about her time in Bristol as very faintly disguised autobiography . |
| 3 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to have to impose on your time a little longer , Doctor . |
| 5 | There was one weekend left to go of our time at Canjuers . |
| 6 | Up to now I 've avoided mentioning our day-to-day domestic life , for much the same reason that ex-prisoners are reluctant to talk about their time inside . |
| 7 | We have a lot of people prepared to give of their time voluntarily to help young people get the kind of training they require and to help them find jobs . |
| 8 | I became a railway enthusiast mainly because the civil engineer on the Gwili Railway at the time was willing to give of his time to answer my questions . |
| 9 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 10 | Even the busiest of us can be persuaded to give of our time and our expertise when we know that the task we are undertaking will take a pre-specified and limited time . |
| 11 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 12 | ‘ Otherwise what 's she going to do with her time , poor girl ? |
| 13 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 14 | For one thing they 've got better things to do with their time . |
| 15 | But the gas has been cut off , which is an appalling piece of vindictiveness on the part of some public servant who ought to know that writers of talent have better things to do with their time than remember dates on bits of paper delivered in brown envelopes like a trade circular . |
| 16 | Something had to be found for the men to do with their time , so someone had the bright idea of introducing ‘ Cook 's Tours ’ — trips over France and Germany in a Lancaster for any of the non-flying staff who cared to take advantage of it , including Waafs . |
| 17 | Any doubt there may be that the family disease is a genuine addictive disease is dispelled when the divorced wife of a primary sufferer promptly marries another or when the parents of young sufferers find themselves depressed and lonely and wondering what to do with their time and experience once their own primary sufferer is in recovery . |
| 18 | All the pilots were different but they all had a common theme , giving people who were out of work something worthwhile to do with their time . |
| 19 | Better things to do with me time than sit and watch the up and down street . |
| 20 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 21 | Even if it was n't dangerous , it was certainly silly and I could think of better things to do with my time . |
| 22 | Here , it 's do this , señorita , do that , señorita , as if I 'm a half-witted adolescent with nothing else to do with my time . |
| 23 | I 've always had better things to do with my time than to plot hypothetical revenge for something that happened ten years ago ! ’ she snapped . |
| 24 | I 've got better things to do with my time than speculate on men who look like pirates and have eyes like Lucifer . |
| 25 | ‘ And always the possibility he was killed because of something to do with his time in the secret service . ’ |
| 26 | He 's lonely as hell , poor old bugger , and does n't know what to do with his time . |
| 27 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't you got anything better to do with your time ? ’ |
| 29 | If this is our approach , we force a work of art to last beyond its time , depriving it of the freedom to disintegrate , become a piece of junk , or just an old paint stain . |
| 30 | and I played football in the street with the boys cos you had nothing else to do , you had nowhere else to go in my time ! |