Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning . |
| 2 | Few commanders would have wished to expend the time and energy required to overcome places so heavily defended . |
| 3 | Why Brunel should have agreed to spare the time to become involved with the competition is not clear , except that his brother-in-law and close friend was Sir Benjamin Hawes , who had framed the War Department 's accommodation schedule . |
| 4 | She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do . |
| 5 | Staff , though , do need to have the time and resources to so keep up with their field of study that they are immersed in its conversations . |
| 6 | So training we do need to make the time otherwise it does become a catch twenty two situation . |
| 7 | One day , I do hope to find the time to make a positive contribution towards the Convocation . |
| 8 | On returning to England , he discovered that several hours appeared to have separated the time of the eclipse in Italy and in England . |
| 9 | Bounderby claims to have learned to tell the time from studying its steeple clock ‘ under the direction of a drunken cripple , who was a convicted thief , and an incorrigible vagrant ’ , i.e. a typical denizen of the St Giles district , HT i 4 . |
| 10 | I 'm prepared for people who actually prepare to make comments yes I think you 've got to limit the time and make comments not particularly what people get up and speak for ten minutes I do n't think it 's fair on the people this evening who 've come along and put a question about why are n't you doing certain things I think that 's and I do n't want those people to actually come to a solution . |
| 11 | She had had to take the time off , but they would n't pay her for it . |
| 12 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
| 13 | She was due for a snack at three , followed by another blood-sugar reading , and Belinda had planned to spend the time until then reading up on some aspects of prenatal care that she felt hazy on . |
| 14 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 15 | What might have they have had to measure the time as it passed ? |