Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 I forget to breathe out every time I watch him .
2 We tried to fix up a time to talk about the Willis Phazer board .
3 I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure .
4 The sand area will need stirring up every time you do a water change , so that it does n't get compacted and sour the tank .
5 It was the way he 'd got out the time Barry had locked him in the tractor-shed .
6 Trying our best is enough-we ca n't always expect to succeed fully every time .
7 He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation
8 The nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation .
9 She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) .
10 Was it used to say keep keep saying buy up the time buy up the time ?
11 Ken did , however , help Anita — with the ruby in her navel that kept falling out every time she did her belly dance .
12 He was born independent , self-sufficient and still is , and I 'm left to wonder where the time went .
13 Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim .
14 So we had to search quite a time to find these players .
15 That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was .
16 But it 's too late now , I 've frittered away the time , as usual .
17 The counsellor was conscious that Susie had said nothing , while Peter had taken up the time .
18 Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing .
19 ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight .
20 Many firms offer training two years in advance but they tend to be the larger organisations and if you wish to work for a smaller firm or , for example , a local authority , you often need to apply nearer the time .
21 under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration .
22 By the time we sat down here I thought well considering that we came in by car door to door practically and that when the driving was n't public transport it it 's taken quite a time to get into
23 Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers .
24 Bored GIs waiting for the war with Iraq to begin whiled away the time with fellow female soldiers .
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