Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , no , better not , ’ she argued as she caught sight of the time . |
| 2 | Putting out a hand to pick up her brush , intending to try to do something about her limp blonde hair , Laura gave a yelp of dismay as she caught sight of the time on her wrist-watch . |
| 3 | If your students want to study spoken English , you will spend part of the time in the classroom working on examples of the spoken language . |
| 4 | Notice of a day fixed for a hearing includes notice of the time so fixed ( Ord 1 , r 12 ) . |
| 5 | Louise , gritting her teeth against saying everything she wanted to say , spent part of the time making tea in the terrible little lean-to . |
| 6 | I 'm just , you know thinking of the time . |
| 7 | However heaters only operate part of the time , so it is generous to say 1p per hour . |
| 8 | The best known mayor of the time , Shaikh Muhammad Ali Ja'bari ( who had led the West Bank notables to accept Hashemite rule in 1948 ) , offered to act as an intermediary between the Israelis and Amman — a role which , as Amman was quick to perceive , greatly enhanced Ja'bari 's standing as ‘ the leader ’ of the West Bank population . |
| 9 | The old man grabbed hold of the Time Lord 's hand and removed it from him . |
| 10 | It 's cheap , cheerful and trashy but on another level it 's a well focused snapshot of the time of social change , emancipation and free love . |
| 11 | Although couched in the typically occult language of the time , Garland 's prescient account catches society at a crossroads : those young homosexuals adrift in a postwar landscape without signs may now be seen as harbingers of a new way of life and a new economic order — variously described as pop culture , youth culture or the Teen age — which stand at the heart of ‘ late , consumer or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 12 | Eilish McDermott , QC , appearing for Doherty , submitted ‘ natural justice ’ required that — taking account of the time he spent in jail in the US — Doherty should have been given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | I took account of the time . |
| 14 | Do n't lose sight of the time and space constraints . |
| 15 | As the days pass in this unfamiliar environment , some patients ( particularly those with deficient vision and hearing , and those who for one reason or another do not read a daily newspaper ) can lose track of the time of day , the day of the week and the day of the month . |
| 16 | He would quite often lose track of the time at work and the resulting drop in his blood sugar level would affect his behaviour . |
| 17 | Knitting was a painful business for me , but it was absorbing , and I 'd lost track of the time when I heard crashing footsteps approaching and a determined bang on the door . |
| 18 | ‘ I lose track of the time . ’ |
| 19 | She dressed with consummate elegance , personifying grace both off and on the stage , and she was the most photographed woman of the time . |