Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peeling potatoes and worrying how best to retain their vitamin C , Scarlet has plenty of time to worry about other things , such as why she is so much more timid than her best friend Constance and what she can do to improve relations between her dour , monotonic husband and Camille , her daughter from her first marriage . |
| 2 | In fact when you enter a large mental hospital you do enter a special kind of world , a village with streets and sign posts , and usually , for in such places , everyone has plenty of time on their hands , no shortage of people willing to direct you to where you want to go . |
| 3 | Has plenty of time to do so . |
| 4 | It is a very pretty stitch when finished and definitely one of those to reserve for when one has plenty of time to spare . |
| 5 | He has plenty of time for these creatures . |
| 6 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 7 | He has lots of time yet . |
| 8 | In a first-rate film this happens plenty of times . |
| 9 | The weekend is planned so that the free search will take place on the Saturday ; this will give people who are travelling long distances plenty of time to settle in . |
| 10 | A weeping star that mends itself in time |
| 11 | I had to end the letters ‘ Always supposing this letter reaches you in time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I am a registered general nurse and , although I love my work , it depresses me at times to have to work shifts , both day and night . |
| 13 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 14 | Well he 's got six for twenty-five at the Oval so he 's doing well in his test career , but it 's Lawrence now to bowl for the left-handed , who pushes that one back down the pitch , gets plenty of time . |
| 15 | When A posts the offer to B he impliedly authorises B to conclude the contract by posting a letter of acceptance , but only on the assumption that the acceptance is properly addressed ; if it is not , there is no acceptance even though the Post Office cleverly delivers it on time . |
| 16 | The device takes two pictures from the different video channels , and aligns them in time , so that the horizontal lines of one picture exactly match the horizontal lines of the other . |
| 17 | He knows that if he helps them in time of need , they will reciprocate without being asked . |
| 18 | Secondly , production of the language does not need to be taught : it emerges itself in time , through the understanding . |
| 19 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 20 | In fact , Andrew 's tone reminds me at times of Marc Bolan , particularly when he 's playing the percussive , rhythmic section across bars 4 and 5 . |
| 21 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 22 | I know she thinks says things you know she embarrasses me at times |
| 23 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 24 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 25 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 26 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |