Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decide he is insane but harmless , and it 's only someone to pass the time with after all . |
| 2 | I should try it myself if only I had the time . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 4 | Still I suppose the time 's it 's the actual the calendar 's starting to tick for having this is n't it now . |
| 5 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 6 | ‘ We have never said no to a sport since l896 but now I think the time has come to start . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And now I think the time has come to explore a little further . ’ |
| 8 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 9 | ‘ Now she feels the time has come to hand over to someone else . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you think the time 's come , Albert , ’ wheedled Nelly , ‘ when we thought of setting up here together ? |
| 11 | Sure sure do n't you remember the time Liverpool were playing United ? |
| 12 | Does n't it recall the time when the church taught that our Earth was the centre of the universe , and the stars just little pinpricks of light set in the sky for our delight ( or , even more absurdly presumptuous , that the stars go out of their way to exert astrological influences on our little lives ) ? |
| 13 | Unfortunately I think the time has come to pack your things up |
| 14 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 15 | Joking apart , after nine years as a security operator I found it hard to readjust my life but , now I do not know how I found the time to do a full time job . |
| 16 | I wonder how she found the time . |
| 17 | oh yes , you get a hospital appointment then you have the time off it , that 's it , they 'll |
| 18 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 19 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 20 | ‘ At least we know the time of the murder , ’ said Sergeant Bird practically . |
| 21 | Between the tournaments and all that smiling at the cameras , one wondered how they found the time and the energy to do all those things that the popular press said they did . |
| 22 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 23 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 24 | I ca n't see how he finds the time , with all his other activities . |
| 25 | I just ca n't remember when I found the time to wash my hair and iron creases into my flares . |
| 26 | That is why I believe the time has come when Labour should commit itself to a Bill of Rights based on the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 27 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 28 | His comedy went into those Welsh and newly minted theatrical stories at Oxford where he had the time of his life . |
| 29 | ‘ It will also be interesting to see where he gets the time from too , because there 's his solo album release , our anthology , and then in September Mick , Stevie ( Nicks ) , Chris , myself and Billy start a new Fleetwood Mac album , which marks the end of Christine 's ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 30 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |