Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 2 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 3 | Most hobbies cost some money , some a great deal , why not occupy time with machine knitting ? |
| 4 | I personally do not have time for delays in this operation , and my approach has been ratified at the highest levels . |
| 5 | He does not waste time on definitions . |
| 6 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 7 | He apologized and explained , but she did not waste time in argument . |
| 8 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 9 | You may want your partner to know that there is something important you want to discuss , so that you can both make time in advance . |
| 10 | It would also give time for Rune to inveigle her into taking up their affair where it had left off . |
| 11 | It may off it may also take time for farmers to acquire the skills necessary in order to increase , or to use , to adopt this technology . |
| 12 | disclose : I feel : irritated/like I do n't matter/defeated. predict : if you do this , I can work more efficiently/I know you 're busy , but if you do this we 'll both save time on discussions like this/I 'd be better motivated if you did . |
| 13 | Although you should make a specific time when candidates can ask their own questions you should also allow time for questions which arise naturally at an earlier stage of the interview . |
| 14 | ACET volunteers work as part of a team and provide help in many different ways to ensure that people do n't spend time in hospital unnecessarily . |
| 15 | And I did n't have time to pussyfoot around . |
| 16 | Wo n't have time to appetite . |
| 17 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm only spoiling you like this , ’ lied my mother , ‘ because when you 've got a home of your own you wo n't have time for breakfast in bed . ’ |
| 19 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't have time for games , Lori . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 22 | Defries did n't have time for talk . |