Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 2 | We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better . |
| 3 | This meant he would need to double the time to twenty days . |
| 4 | After all , the government itself has felt it necessary to set up an agency simply to find fathers who want to spend no time at all with their families . |
| 5 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't like to put a time on it , but we could be talking years . |
| 7 | That relieved me from the embarrassment of having to ask for it in front of the stoical poker-faced brigade of women who often assembled in the shop in their curlers and headsquares to pass the time of day . |
| 8 | But you do have to arrange a time with them but the benefit of this is that there will be a tutor to assist you . |
| 9 | Camcorders are rather power-hungry beasts and the average of forty minutes of recording time per charge seems to last no time at all when you are actually on a shoot — a spare battery can be a god-send . |
| 10 | She came home in despair and went back to the clinic to work rather than spend the Sunday alone , or try to pass the time with friends . |
| 11 | They were also asked to record the time at which hunger returned . |
| 12 | Once this is achieved , the person can be encouraged to increase the time between visits to the toilet . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Karen thinks this is why she was allowed to take the time of to train . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A final method of curtailing debate arises under Standing Order No. 22 which authorises the Speaker or a chairman to stop a Member who seeks to waste the time of the House by tediously repeating himself . |
| 17 | As she headed for the stairs her mind was already trying to calculate the time since the call . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you are to enjoy the college experience to the full , you need to lose no time in finding your way around college . |
| 20 | He worked out when he was born , wanted to know the time of day , when the worker would return and when he would see his wife again . |
| 21 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |
| 22 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 23 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 24 | We collected our horses , took leave of Santerre and galloped down the frozen , cobbled track as if Mandeville intended to waste no time in reaching Glastonbury before nightfall . |
| 25 | To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value . |
| 26 | ‘ There are no barriers being put up on the basis of age but the national team is now in a situation in qualifying Group I where they have to produce every time in the six ties that remain to be played . |