Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 2 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 3 | It is truly remarkable that , given the scant time for leisure , a fine appreciation of music and literature existed in certain isolated pockets of Baldersdale which Hannah was privileged to enjoy . |
| 4 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 5 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 6 | Sponsors and guests were invited to estimate the exact time of the flight of the Haggis from the Sandford Hotel , Fife to The Savoy . |
| 7 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 8 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 9 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 10 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 11 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 12 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 13 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 14 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 15 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 16 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 17 | We knew we would enjoy the wild times for two weeks and then regret it . |
| 18 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 19 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 20 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 21 | If a person who was occupied a considerable time in a search gave an additional fee to the parish clerk , saying , ‘ I wish to make you some compensation for your time , ’ that would be a voluntary payment . |
| 22 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 23 | So the ordered structure of the Sun , with its retinue of planets , repeated what was occurring a million times around other similar stars of the same mass and density — what is known as ‘ main sequence ’ stars . |
| 24 | Queen Victoria and George V presided a dozen times over the formation of minority or coalition governments . |
| 25 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 26 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 27 | I was then permitted a short time during the lunch interval to study this new material before being cross-examined on it . |
| 28 | Jean Francois Poitevin , who finished third last year and has a best time of 1:32:22 , has pulled out in protest . |
| 29 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 30 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |