Example sentences of "time it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not explain the motivations of Romeo in terms of today 's values , but we can bring a contemporary handling to the words that will make the imagery blaze afresh each time it is spoken . |
| 2 | My dream of a book whose print fades a little each time it is read until the pages are blank . |
| 3 | You complain about your friends never coming to see you , but when they do come , you give them such a hard time it 's hardly surprising they stay away . |
| 4 | This time it was my landlady 's turn to drop a bomb . |
| 5 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 6 | It 's also a colour of cold — and we have n't had much of a summer this year — but at the same time it reminds me of the warmth and tranquillity of a Claude Lorrain . |
| 7 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 8 | In Australia , all launching is done this way , and for a time it was common in the U.S.A. The disadvantages , however , of the low tow position are as follows . |
| 9 | This time it will almost certainly drop a wing , but just easing forwards a little will make a recovery . |
| 10 | For a long time it has been known that heavy drinking during pregnancy can badly affect a baby 's development so that when it is born , its face and head are deformed and it is mentally backward . |
| 11 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 12 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 13 | When we talked it was like two people playing with a ball : sometimes it went into the goal , sometimes it grazed the post , but most of the time it went high in the air and missed completely . |
| 14 | At the time it appeared to be the most plausible perhaps . |
| 15 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 16 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
| 17 | It is important though to have corner blocks , and these I make in the time it takes for my tea to go cold . |
| 18 | Indeed , for a time it enabled the service to become an all HST operation so that some places actually had a better service . |
| 19 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 20 | It replaced 1923 stock , which was incidentally only forty-four years old at the time it was moved to the island ! |
| 21 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 22 | The money is automatically taken out of your current account in the same time it takes to clear a cheque , roughly three days . |
| 23 | Then the ground shook again ; this time it was Steve , ordering them back to the kitchen . |
| 24 | The best scheme , by far , is to do what is normally done , ie. , write a bit image file in terms of the resolution available at the time it is created . |
| 25 | Such a bit image blocks are not normally compressed , and anyone using graphics in a document is familiar with the time it takes to load the printer . |
| 26 | Venturing to propound a law of intellectual life , I suggest that evaluative criticism enters institutional literary study under the influence of practising writers , or of critics who have a close discipular relation to them , but that in time it is rejected , like an alien organ . |
| 27 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 28 | At the same time it is bringing a new generation of management into the MB Group boardroom to mastermind the next phase of the company 's expansion . |
| 29 | This time it was the turn of Pauls , the food division , to thrive on the back of high pig prices and strong demand for malt from the Japanese whisky industry . |
| 30 | But at the same time it showed that there remained a solid contingent of the defence force loyal to General Noriega , who is wanted in the US on drug-trafficking charges . |