Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the UK Government is serious about stopping the greenhouse effect it should stop wasting time on long-term impracticalities such as nuclear power and look at what can be achieved now . |
| 2 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 3 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 4 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 5 | Mahmud may have bought time for himself , but he stored up trouble for his successors . |
| 6 | As she told me : ‘ I had no question about saying straight away after our first picture together that Kenneth Williams was the one I would choose to spend time with on a desert island . ’ |
| 7 | The aim of this project was to provide foreign learners of French with an indispensable minimum vocabulary ; by eliminating all words outside this minimum the learner would avoid wasting time on unnecessary items . |
| 8 | The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India . |
| 9 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 10 | Victoria made it clear any schedule would have to make time for both shopping and relaxing , with official duties including opening hospital wards and presenting medals at swimming galas . |
| 11 | If you had your account in a bank near to your home , it would mean taking time off work to deal With money problems . |
| 12 | After this , however , the child will need to spend time in consultation with the teacher and classmates , defining precise areas for subsequent investigation . |
| 13 | I hope that my right hon. Friends will consider finding time for such legislation when they penetrate the meaning of that wonderful phrase , ’ Further measures will be laid before you . ’ |
| 14 | WESTERN car makers hoping to expand into the new consumer markets of eastern Europe will have to mark time until 1995 , according to figures from DRI/McGraw-Hill which is predicting a jump in new registrations in the next half of this decade , but continuing sharp declines until 1995 . |
| 15 | A national charity is claiming that many of the four thousand young Scots who become homeless this year will have spent time in care . |
| 16 | Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door . |
| 17 | The tremendous variety of activities in Dorset ensure that I will continue to visit time after time . |