Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why would we want to work out three times two ? |
| 2 | They will want to know how much time each teacher spends in front of the class and the size of classes in the different subjects and year groups . |
| 3 | But while County are tipped to go up this time , Francis could be stepping on to a bigger stage before next spring . |
| 4 | Its newspaper , Trybuna Ludu , lost 1.7billion zloties ( £382,500 ) last year ; this year it is expected to lose nearly five times as much . |
| 5 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 6 | For one reason or another , either it is too long before the courts are available to try the cases , or the lawyers appear to require too much time to prepare the defence . |
| 7 | Those already familiar with these tasks for normal teaching materials will need to allow considerably more time for liaison when the work includes computer-based materials . |
| 8 | It has to take up private time — and at home . |
| 9 | She tried to bolt out several times and she finally made it . |
| 10 | Betty uses the scheme once a week , although she is unhappy about the fact that she has to spend so much time getting the equipment ready . |
| 11 | Do you honestly think your company 's so scintillating that I want to spend still more time in it ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Chief executives of international companies want to spend more personal time on stakeholder issues , ’ he says . |
| 13 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 14 | Mr M was very impressed by the Children 's Panel system that , he said , seemed to take so much time and trouble to listen to , and about , the children . |
| 15 | For several years , in the late 1960s and the early 1970s , sociologists seemed to spend as much time and effort arguing about how they should be thinking about and studying the social world as they did in actually doing research . |
| 16 | We have got to do better this time . ’ |
| 17 | I have brought them up to support the Conservatives , but they are saying they are not going to vote again next time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I mean , you seem to spend singularly little time on your — um — aquatic investigation . ’ |
| 19 | the questions like ev everything that you 've got to say how much time is spent on it and then how much does that cost you . |
| 20 | I am determined that I 'm going to spend far more time with my child , ’ says Richard . |
| 21 | In hospital , the parents can be enabled to spend as much time as they wish with their sick child , and efforts can be made to keep to the child 's familiar routines ( Rutter , 1979b ) . |
| 22 | So maybe that ticking does n't mean that the mine is set to go off any time . |
| 23 | If you 're coming to work here full time , you 're bloody well going to join the Pony Club . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll just have to try harder next time … you 've got to keep going |
| 25 | It will have to be Luxembourg , and three old ones that we 've done quite recently , so that we do n't have to waste too much time rehearsing them . ’ |
| 26 | Having to count how many times they have hit the horse and then decide to give it one more is ridiculous . |
| 27 | It was found to have almost three times the risk factor at which BR should have become concerned . |
| 28 | It was found to have almost three times the risk factor at which BR should have become concerned . |
| 29 | ‘ But their spinners are pretty useful and we know we will have to bat well second time around . ’ |
| 30 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |