Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 2 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 3 | It is truly remarkable that , given the scant time for leisure , a fine appreciation of music and literature existed in certain isolated pockets of Baldersdale which Hannah was privileged to enjoy . |
| 4 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 5 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 6 | Sponsors and guests were invited to estimate the exact time of the flight of the Haggis from the Sandford Hotel , Fife to The Savoy . |
| 7 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 8 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 9 | Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ . |
| 10 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 11 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 12 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 13 | I mean the first time at a lower level something appeared , I shaded half a square |
| 14 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 15 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 16 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 17 | We knew we would enjoy the wild times for two weeks and then regret it . |
| 18 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 19 | She felt a coldness inside her and did her best to remember the happy times of her childhood . |
| 20 | Finally as some transfers , in particular ‘ bulk ’ may be rather time consuming , the LIFESPAN Manager has the ability to restrict the elapsed time over which LIFESPAN RDBI runs . |
| 21 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 22 | Answer your first-choice question and , if you finish or run out of anything else to write before the allocated time , do not give the extra time to the second question but keep it in reserve for the end of the examination . |
| 23 | Congress , President , the government have got no guts to announce publicly that their intentions to privatize the N H S on a date that will give the leading time with the razzmatazz and P R that they 've done before to sell shares , to sell shares in the British public in a public nationally held N H S , there will be no seats , there will be no Inspector Morses and others as there 've been with Telecom , gas , water and electricity . |
| 24 | Yes , there 's definitely there some proving , mind you , you 'll have to pick the right time of day , do you know what I mean ? |
| 25 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 26 | By the sixteenth century mining operations had become closely regulated by the clock according to Agricola ( Georg Bauer ) , who in his De re metallica , of 1555 , noted the precise times of shifts . |
| 27 | Gradually , by walking slowly and shielding her from the wind as much as possible with my body , I cut the wings-open time to a minimum . |
| 28 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 29 | Briefly , the image of Lexandro 's own two indulged foolish siblings , Andria and Phoeba , flitted through his consciousness for what seemed the first time in years . |
| 30 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |