Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 2 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 3 | At the end of the meditation , towards the end of the meditation , I 'll ask you three questions and I 'll leave some time of silence between each question . |
| 4 | I think I 'll pass this time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll pass this time , if you do n't mind , Hugh . |
| 6 | I 'll pay this time , if that 's your objection , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Yeah , that 's right I 'll pay this time . |
| 8 | But I 'll need some time . |
| 9 | ‘ So I 'll have more time for designing . |
| 10 | Perhaps next time I 'll have more time to prepare . |
| 11 | We do n't have an afternoon surgery , so I 'll have more time to talk . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll come some time early on St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said instead . |
| 13 | But I 'll come another time , please . ’ |
| 14 | There 's no job in the industry I covet above my own , but I dearly wish I could spend more time designing and less on paperwork . |
| 15 | I 'll retire , of course , but I 'd like more time to lay my plans . |
| 16 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 17 | Well I promised our our Sarah I 'd spend some time with her I ai n't gon na say too much but she does get a bit upset at times |
| 18 | I would spend more time in Aunt Emily 's except that Dora does n't like it . |
| 19 | I knew that I would return to this island again when I would have more time to search . |
| 20 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |
| 21 | Another time I shall have more time to offer you some tea . |
| 22 | However , my contract with the club is up next May and then I will have more time on my hands , but I will still need help with the Irish job . |
| 23 | And everybody , I says marvellous cos I can have some time off , , it 's not fair . |
| 24 | If they can have some time off I can have some time off , fair 's fair . |
| 25 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 26 | The bank itself conceded in its ‘ financial sector operations policy ’ published at the weekend , that ‘ public offerings also require a fair degree of investor sophistication which may take some time to develop in some of the bank 's countries of operation ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ We are going through the process of making forensic tests and taking statements , which may take some time , and the inquiry is now mushrooming out from the house . ’ |
| 28 | There are a number of questions to investigate , which may take some time . |
| 29 | Now , when she is fully dilated , which will take some time , I will tell you to stop . |
| 30 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |