Example sentences of "pass [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 32 | Graham reluctantly pushed one of the cassettes into the system , waved the cigarette smoke irritably from his face , then turned his attention to the New York skyline and started to name the numerous skyscrapers to himself in an attempt to pass the time . |
| 33 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 34 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 35 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | They used to pass the time being cruel to the poor , gambling , whoring and indulging in most other perversions you could care to name . ’ |
| 38 | ’ We 'll find ways to pass the time ’ . |
| 39 | Or simply a game to pass the time and add spice to the voyage ? |
| 40 | Something to pass the time and ease the boredom . |
| 41 | To pass the time I had access to the hospital library on VDU , together with TV and video . |
| 42 | Why he needed to choose this moment to pass the time of day with all and sundry and — good grief ! — take a wad of notes from his back pocket and count them out with infuriating slowness — was anybody 's guess . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He 'd been merely indulging in an amusing diversion to pass the time . |
| 45 | To pass the time , the conversation had ranged over a variety of topics , from sport to current affairs , then had finally settled after some time on shop-talk — inevitable when any group of cops got together anywhere in the world . |
| 46 | Enoch Powell sat hunched and brooding , breaking his silence only to pass the time of day with John Biffen . |
| 47 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 48 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 49 | I must have done , as not only did the Old Bill and the Ritas ( as in Meter Maid ) ignore me , but a real cabbie parked nearby came over to pass the time of day . |
| 50 | Shakespeare was , in fact , a retired pirate , who , after losing his right hand to a round of chain-shot on the Spanish Main , gave up the life of brigandry on the high seas and took up writing as a hobby to pass the time . |
| 51 | Just to pass the time . ’ |
| 52 | cracking its knuckles to pass the time . |
| 53 | To pass the time , he knits |
| 54 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 55 | This is the sort of thing we all get to talking about when the beer 's flowing , or to pass the time when we 're 4–0 down at home to Norwich . |
| 56 | He smiled in a way that tightened every single nerve in her body , and added suggestively , ‘ But I 'm sure we can think of something to do to pass the time . ’ |
| 57 | It helps to pass the time . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 60 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |