Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What made you want to go this time , then ? ’ |
| 2 | And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday . |
| 3 | said that they would prefer to work full time . |
| 4 | Er , that enables that they choose how much time they need , er because it , do I need to go that time or that time ? |
| 5 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 6 | ‘ You wo n't need to help this time , ’ he said , lamely . |
| 7 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 8 | This , however , is quite distinct from a counselling service , which would seek to offer protected time in which the counsellor and client could focus on a psycho-social problem . |
| 9 | You will appreciate that I shall need to take paid time off work for antenatal visits . |
| 10 | They also tend to ‘ use up ’ remedies quickly which may need repeating several times an hour at first but always according to the changes in the symptom picture . |
| 11 | People arguing about whether black swans exist , for instance , do not need to spend much time agreeing first what a black swan is . |
| 12 | Do the learners need to spend more time in some areas than in others ? |
| 13 | Barraga ( 1976 ) claims that ‘ In order to stimulate interest in visual development , and in learning to see more things , many children may need to spend some time visually investigating objects in the classroom or in the natural environment to broaden their visual experiences . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't like helping this time of night , sorry , it 's half past ten |
| 15 | ‘ If you 'd like to come any time … that would be … it would be all right . ’ |
| 16 | I should like to know this time before the horse-boys do . ’ |
| 17 | It would like to fetch five times revenues — which were $160m in the fiscal year ended September 30 — but then who would n't . |
| 18 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 19 | If you 're partial to drinking bottled water , the report on Which you might like to read some time . |
| 20 | " I would like to ride some time — perhaps one evening when I 've finished work . |
| 21 | This method of knitting whilst shaping is so important that you might like to keep suitable time entirely clear to master the basics without interruption . |
| 22 | We will want to give adequate time to them to share their experiences and insights . |
| 23 | At Westminster they disembarked at King 's Steps , Corbett pulling the hood of his cloak over his head to avoid recognition by any of his colleagues in the Chancery or the Exchequer for he did not want to waste valuable time in idle chatter . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Fedorov wo n't be visiting the post office till the end of the month , but we do n't want to waste any time after that . |
| 25 | It might avoid wasting precious time . ’ |
| 26 | Next Saturday , she will hope to lower that time by a second on the same track in the TSB Invitation . |
| 27 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 28 | They might have to wait some time … . |
| 29 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |
| 30 | Others who may well have had reservations about him ( though we shall probably have to wait some time before their reflections can be made available to us ) were the oil-company spokesmen to whom he advanced new facts of life during the earnestly disputed discussions between OPEC and the major companies in Tehran in December 1973 . |