Example sentences of "[prep] the time on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true to say that the only overweight animals are those cared for by humans who take more notice of the time on the clock than of natural feelings of hunger . |
| 2 | In the Roman Empire , this ambivalence was demonstrated by the important role played by senior citizens , on the one hand , and their cruel subjection to the literary satire of the time on the other . |
| 3 | Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit . |
| 4 | He spent most of the time on the phone with his bookie . |
| 5 | Much of the time on the screen he wanders around helplessly in a freshly starched little Dior number looking for a line worth saying . |
| 6 | We spent most of the time on the planet acid : the best place for us to be . |
| 7 | We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping . |
| 8 | I was dancing much of the time on the wedding day . |
| 9 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 10 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |