Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 2 | Nor did I need to buy time for anybody . |
| 3 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 4 | For me , a new and very delightful phase of life began , for I began to spend time with mothers of young children again . |
| 5 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 6 | It was only when she began to spend time at CBS 's corporate headquarters that Wilson realised just how congenial the atmosphere at Virgin had been by comparison — particularly for a highly motivated woman . |
| 7 | You are very welcome to send recruitment literature into schools for use in Careers guidance and counselling , and Careers Teachers will certainly be pleased if you offer to spend time with groups of young people explaining the nature of the employment you offer . |
| 8 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 9 | It 's something you have n't got planned into your day , is n't it , it 's something that comes up , and you , you have to respond to it , so you have to have time between the day , to be able to do those things . |
| 10 | You need to spend time with each dog — and that requires a little bit more effort , especially if you decide to have two puppies at the same time . |
| 11 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 12 | Gerald was impatient : ‘ Do we have to waste time on an empty box ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I say , ’ said Hilary Frome , calculatedly offensive , at the height of Corbett 's triumph , ‘ do we have to waste time on these party tricks ? |
| 14 | Okay , so because there is this production time lag , there is a growing season , right , we need to incorporate time into our models . |
| 15 | Most people who arrange to work flexible hours do so because they want to spend time with their families , as well as pursue a career . |
| 16 | At two Best Western hotels , the Ivy House at Marlborough and the Spa at Tunbridge Wells , they propose to bide time with theme weekends on structuring a portfolio and sorting out options and warrants . |
| 17 | ‘ Why would anyone want to spend time with me ? ’ |
| 18 | In the office , like a typical Cancerian , he seemed to have time for just one thing . |
| 19 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 20 | He preferred to spend time in the school library . |
| 21 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 22 | His parents had feared something dreadful would happen if he continued to spend time with Tommy — they had feared he would get involved in stealing . |