Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years , therefore , he has only read The Times . |
| 2 | Babur rings Keith and tells Keith he is the only one who has not arranged the time off yet . |
| 3 | Dave is a dog lover but because of his army routine and duties , he has not had the time or lifestyle to be able to keep a dog . |
| 4 | Another , closely related , hypothesis is that at the end of each day we have in our unconscious a sort of ragbag of bits and pieces of experience which our conscious mind has not had the time , opportunity or inclination to process ; once again , the function of the dream is to deal with this material . |
| 5 | Between transatlantic flights and coping with paternity , he has somehow found the time to make another series of The Thing is … for Channel Four . |
| 6 | He says he has n't got the time to spend — they 'll need evenings and evenings , far more than once a week . |
| 7 | Charlton 's has n't got the time or inclination to wonder what Billy Bingham is thinking about in the run-up to Wednesday 's big game . |
| 8 | you know , so I 'm , I mean I , I , you know , I know that , and I know he has n't got the time so |
| 9 | Well that 's it , it 's like my husband I mean he 's working , he has n't got the time and I |
| 10 | They could be sucked beforehand to reduce the time before explosion , though the imagination sags a bit at conjuring up a frogman sucking aniseed balls underwater alongside explosive charges . |
| 11 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 12 | The committee says that UK Nirex , the nuclear waste disposal company , has consistently underestimated the time it will take to prepare and build a repository . |
| 13 | Betty Anderson , has never forgotten the time she spent at Westonbirt . |
| 14 | Since any nonsinusoidal signal is the sum of a frequency spectrum of sinusoidal signals ( see chapter 11 ) , filtering generally alters the time dependence of a nonsinusoidal signal . |
| 15 | Time is finite and business has to be done ; abuse consists of seeking merely to occupy the time of the House to no other end than that business shall not be done . |
| 16 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 17 | He rarely seemed either to have the time or the inclination to return to Brougham . |
| 18 | It can be used simply to indicate the time actually worked on a given job . |
| 19 | It can be used simply to indicate the time actually worked on a given job . |
| 20 | On the evening after the Bumbles ' little business meeting , Mr Bill Sikes , waking from a sleep , called out to ask the time . |
| 21 | Remember how to tell the time . |
| 22 | The old hands were less excited and settled down to daydream the time away until supper . |
| 23 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 24 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 25 | It 's very obvious that the two of you did not pass the time playing tic tac toe . ’ |
| 26 | The presence of 200 nmol/l staurosporine did not alter the time course of the desensitisation that was seen when HGT-1 cells were exposed to histamine at 37°C ( data not shown . |
| 27 | The pack-flat furniture had been invented recognising that younger people had become more mobile and often did not have the time to wait around at home for furniture deliveries . |
| 28 | Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers . |
| 29 | Mr Fractor turned red but did not have the time to answer because the basket was back beside them . |
| 30 | Apart from letting them share the brand name and an instant distribution deal , The Wedding Present did not have the time to take on any record company functions for the bands . |