Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I Do n't Know How I Found Time For Work ! ’ |
| 2 | And , when some other retired persons says in my presence ‘ I do n't know how I found time for work ’ , I no longer inwardly cringe with scorn at the well worn cliche as I used to do but instead I enthusiastically and of course sagely nod my head in hearty agreement . |
| 3 | And he said , it 's most unlike me , as you probably know , but he said I could n't tell you the last time I had time off work , but he said , I have n't been into the office since th cos I 've been feeling really bad ! |
| 4 | ‘ Do I need to leave the house or can I find time at home , when the others are out ? ’ , |
| 5 | Coronation Street , half past seven till eight , Rumpole from nine to ten so you can come out between eight and nine and ten and ele le le le eight and nine and ten and eleven , so you got time for couple between eight and nine and a couple between ten and eleven , how 's that ? |
| 6 | ‘ Happy Christmas , Linda — you 've been my little bit of Christmas — it 's always the busiest folk who make time for others . |
| 7 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 8 | A person who listens shows that he or she has time for others . |
| 9 | A new cooker or whatever can be a tremendous boon and investment but before you go out and spend money ask yourself questions about the way you live : is the pace hectic or leisurely ? how many and what sort of meals do you have to provide ? are you far from a good supermarket or freezer centre ? how much time do you have for shopping ? are you out at work all day ? do you grow your own vegetables ? how often do you entertain ? can you spend time on cooking and food preparation or is it always meals in a hurry ? |
| 10 | Do you have time for coffee or something ? ’ |
| 11 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 12 | Have you lost time from work due to drinking ? 8 . |
| 13 | And why you have time of work |
| 14 | For many years her models were the painters of her native France , and as we spent time in Provence this was a wonderful place for her to work . |
| 15 | They spent time in Luxembourg , did you know ? |
| 16 | Did they have time for dalliance ? |
| 17 | ‘ He is not my lover , ’ Ruth stated emphatically , ‘ but yes , I am upset at the thought of him spending time with Maria Luisa . |
| 18 | We look at some ways of coping with it , and also recognising it in other people , because if you 've got people working for you , and they 're stressed , and they have time off work , you 've got to carry things on , have n't you ? |
| 19 | He spent time in Strawberry Studios in Stockport laying down a guitar part for Factory based Quando Quango , a surprising move on two accounts . |
| 20 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 21 | I do n't know why he wastes time on analysis when he cleans his system out so well on film . |
| 22 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |
| 23 | Using functional notation , we can write However , since it takes time for firms to adjust their capital stocks in response to changes in demand ( remember that capital is a variable factor of production only in the long-run ) , it may be more realistic to introduce a lag into the accelerator part of the function and write Only empirical testing can determine which of the three independent variables is the most important . |
| 24 | Certainly , it takes time for workers and employers to react to changing conditions in the labour market . |
| 25 | " It takes time for staff to say openly " Can we say what we really feel ? " |
| 26 | It takes time for pupils to appreciate the complexity of these concepts but this is what distinguishes history from other disciplines . |
| 27 | The imperfect monitoring of actions means that it takes time for types to self-screen , so they can enjoy a temporary reputation while this is going on . |
| 28 | It takes time for industry to accumulate expertise , to build teams , and to establish a strong market position . |
| 29 | It needed time for reflection before reflecting was possible . |
| 30 | At the start of 1961 he began a serious nova-patrol and since then has divided his observing time between novae and comets , keeping late-night vigils which his wife Mary soon became used to . |