Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 3 | They immediately brighten , become more animated and are often quite grateful that someone has taken the time to listen to them . |
| 4 | Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show . |
| 5 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 6 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 7 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 8 | Today I 've been thinking to myself , I 've only got the sleeves to put in that dress — when am I going to have the time to do it' ? |
| 9 | I do have the time . |
| 10 | Well I think changing the time might bring about . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've crossed the time lines so many times in the TARDIS that I 'm extremely sensitive to temporal disturbances . |
| 12 | But I 've seen the time it was . |
| 13 | Oh aye , I 've seen the time it was . |
| 14 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 15 | Bu but half off and half in at in moment cos I 've taken the time off but there 's lots of problems , like half the team 's gone off sick with pleurisy , tonsillitis and everything |
| 16 | That I 've got the time is a bloody disaster . |
| 17 | ‘ One of these days when I 've got the time . ’ |
| 18 | when I 've got the time . |
| 19 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 20 | Nobody had counted the time or the trouble . |
| 21 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 22 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 23 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 24 | Erm not up to visitors , ma erm , sh she has limited the times she 's visited because she 's got the children , and he 's just really not able to stand the children |
| 25 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 26 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll learn quickly when you do have the time , ’ Helen said . |
| 28 | ‘ You do have the time , ’ Jane pointed out . |
| 29 | If you do take the time to read a book on body language , be warned : a lot of it is theory , and theories are often wrong . |
| 30 | Somebody ought to do a research project into it ; the answers are all there to be unearthed , if you 've got the time and the energy . ’ |