Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pos pn] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other staffer at London 's Shell Centre is editorial assistant George Phillips , who has to divide his time between Shell World and other publications . |
| 2 | But I want to take my time over tackling up and savouring the prospect of the sport I hope to enjoy . |
| 3 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 4 | But er his erm father h was the blacksmith and he had been born away up , and er he came to Ga he came to serve his time in a blacksmith 's shop at and er |
| 5 | He came to serve his time in , he came from a place they called Green , which was a track between the hills away up . |
| 6 | This was not because of the enemy fire , which was less frequent now than it had ever been , for evidently the sepoys had decided to bide their time until the end of the rains . |
| 7 | In the station in which the unit is based ( not Easton ) , the attitude of the policemen towards it is not positive , partly as a result of their ambivalent attitudes toward sex crimes , but mostly because it is policed by women , who therefore are said to spend their time in Boots and Marks and Spencer , making it an easy duty ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 8 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 9 | However , half-a-thumb's-length beyond it ( roughly two minutes at 75kts ) is another very distinctive marker point , a 300ft mast reaching to over 700ft amsl ( L ) which we can use to back-confirm our time over the half-way point as we pass south abeam it . |
| 10 | Eventually he smiled again and said : ‘ As I say , I 'm not going to waste my time on our French friend over there . |
| 11 | Greatness trickled from the corpus of his image , his career now like a gutshot that was going to take its time before killing . |
| 12 | At the end of the fortnight , write an Action Plan for the way you intend to use your time during the next two weeks . |
| 13 | Now , however , celebrities tend to give their time to causes rather than direct events — though the occasional deserving disasters , such as last year 's Jamaican hurricane , squeeze through . |
| 14 | It was only because his employer did not want to waste his time in court proceedings that Willy escaped probation and a possible jail sentence . |
| 15 | had plenty to do to fill your time without belonging |
| 16 | Teller was obsessed by the Super and although he contributed many valuable ideas to the fission project he declined to devote his time to the solid work required to see things through to practical conclusion . |
| 17 | I seemed fated to spend my time with them and it made me feel incomplete as though I were yet unborn . |
| 18 | Two of the youngest and pleasantest of his guards began to spend their time in his cell with him day and night , watch and watch about . |
| 19 | Ideal for students wishing to spend their time at a different location away from their fellow countrymen . |
| 20 | Some like to take their time with an invigorating massage while others opt for a quick once over in the shower . |
| 21 | However , since she needed to fill her time until his return , what better way than to go to the capital city , and spend some days taking a look round ? |
| 22 | Students were known to spend their time in his lectures counting up the number of clichés which he used . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 24 | ONE MORE TIME There 's one section of the guitar market which seems to spend its time in permanent relegation from the pages of guitar magazines … |
| 25 | For unemployed people the free time becomes rather like an empty desert with very , very few oases , and one of the results of our research was to find that , well first of all that unemployed people tend to describe their time in very negative ways , as being empty , as having nothing to do , little activity and so on in it . |
| 26 | I had hoped to take my time over sorting out the house contents , but I 'd better take a look straight away — at any rate for the movable stuff . |
| 27 | She liked to spend her time with the other old people , exchanging grumbles and , as she put it , cheerin' them up and takin' them out o' themselves . |
| 28 | ‘ Garry and Maeve intend to take their time in getting it over to him in a way he will understand , ’ said 72-year-old Luise , of Milton Keynes , Bucks , yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to spend my time with you , any more than you want me at your side , so the sooner you tell me where Garry is , the sooner we can part company . |
| 30 | Preferring to spend their time on the attractions . |