Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for finding someone of your own age , well , you do n't need to spend your time looking round for someone to replace him with . |
| 2 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 3 | However , half-a-thumb's-length beyond it ( roughly two minutes at 75kts ) is another very distinctive marker point , a 300ft mast reaching to over 700ft amsl ( L ) which we can use to back-confirm our time over the half-way point as we pass south abeam it . |
| 4 | ‘ And how do you like to spend your time , when you are not building up your business ? ’ |
| 5 | At the moment he 's under control , but I do n't want to give him time to try going over my head . ’ |
| 6 | They did not want to waste their time , effort , money and future chances in taking on an impregnable President . |
| 7 | They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner 's surgery . |
| 8 | It was only because his employer did not want to waste his time in court proceedings that Willy escaped probation and a possible jail sentence . |
| 9 | ‘ Why does Van want to waste his time showing a car as expensive as that to a kid like Hank ? ’ wondered Mr Frizzell irritably . |
| 10 | He would n't want to waste his time chasing that story if I 'd already done it , and I can get a story into print more quickly than the British magazines he supplies . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't want to waste your time . |
| 12 | I do n't want to waste your time . |
| 13 | I do not want to waste your time today discussing this rubbish . |
| 14 | And if something does n't taste like wine , I for one do n't want to waste my time trying to pretend it does . |
| 15 | I do not want to waste my time writing for silly buggers like you . |
| 16 | Let's stop wasting our time and effort on going down this road to ruin . |
| 17 | With 40 minutes per question , you might decide to allocate your time roughly as follows : |
| 18 | This , it is thought , would have given him time to renegotiate exemption and pay only 40 per cent capital gains . |
| 19 | So , for instance , had you wanted an ad in this issue , we would need to have received your call by 25th August , since that would have given us time to process the ads and put the pages through the system . |
| 20 | If she 'd had the abortion it would have given us time to do that sort of thing . |
| 21 | It was characteristic that a small , relatively unimportant detail of that kind — from his point of view , not mine — should have occupied his time when he had assumed this enormous burden . |
| 22 | A little foresight might have shown them that spending less on early hospitality and a bit more on the venue would have saved them time , money and trouble overall . |
| 23 | Again the Mirror could have offered each of them a solution that would have saved them time and money . |
| 24 | But he said : ‘ I am not bitter about it , I would not have missed my time in football for the world , it was wonderful . ’ |
| 25 | It would give her time to explore and investigate and she would have to pick her time carefully because she had the feeling that Felipe de Santis would be keeping them well in his sight and strictly under his thumb . |
| 26 | Where do you really wish to focus your time and energy ? |
| 27 | ‘ I should have thought your time would be better spent studying the common people . |
| 28 | I felt very sorry that someone who was a partly trained civil engineer should have to waste his time sweeping floors and doing other such menial tasks , but that 's how it was — he was one of the unlucky ones — or should I say lucky ? |
| 29 | It seemed bizarre that a band plagued by such huge problems on an international scale should wish to waste their time attempting to sue a small time and , to be frank , penniless magazine . |
| 30 | He would come when he would come , and the Tabula Rasa would have to bide its time , though the longer he was away the more the likelihood grew of one of their number voicing the suspicion some of them surely nurtured : that Godolphin 's dealings in talismans and wantons were only the tip of the iceberg . |