Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some may find it inconvenient to take the time off work to be screened . |
| 2 | Some may find it inconvenient to take the time off work to be screened . |
| 3 | It is possible to pinpoint the time of this decision of the Jewish leaders if Mark 's account is followed . |
| 4 | However , for anyone who knows what the expression the Derby means , it would almost certainly have been more informative to tag the time of utterance as Derby Day , 80 . |
| 5 | They 're sure to have the time of their lives at the Pirates Club or Club 16 , enjoying hours of fun with newfound friends and leaving you with new-found freedom . |
| 6 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 7 | Hope was generally busy , but with the three of us I should be able to snatch the time for a letter in the small hours . |
| 8 | If invited and able to get the time off work , he will go to races anywhere in the world , whatever the distance , yet he never trains for any particular race . |
| 9 | It would be possible to specify the time of an utterance as stretching between say 9.33 a.m. and 9.34 a.m. on 5 June 1961 , specifying the utterance in terms of clock and calendar time , good standard systems . |