Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 3 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 4 | Today I 've been thinking to myself , I 've only got the sleeves to put in that dress — when am I going to have the time to do it' ? |
| 5 | And being the one who was taking the raw material and bashing it into the records I had to pick a time to leave where it was n't going to be a huge blow to everybody else . |
| 6 | If I have to name a time I 'm thinking of running around the three hour mark . ’ |
| 7 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 8 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 9 | Yeah you want to have a time to go to bed . |
| 10 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 11 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 12 | If you had to learn every time you could n't spot patterns you 'd never you 'd never be able to play football cos you 'd be you 'd always be a learner would n't you . |
| 13 | You allow people to say what they like , write it down , you have to set a time limit because people get tired , it is a very sort of , it takes a lot of energy to do this , and concentrate on it . |
| 14 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 15 | If you are to enjoy the college experience to the full , you need to lose no time in finding your way around college . |
| 16 | I think you need to set a time actually . |
| 17 | To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value . |
| 18 | But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that . |
| 19 | Why do we need to change the time period ? |
| 20 | They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem . |
| 21 | But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this . |
| 22 | The expected decline in services may simply mean that we come to regret the time when we felt that having a significant manufacturing base was an optional extra we could do without . |
| 23 | ‘ To integrate the information for each line , we have to take the time to make sure we have all of the elements necessary to verify the bills electronically , ’ Gilmont said . |
| 24 | We need to tighten the time schedules for the writing of reports , and ensure that the workloads are more evenly spread than they are in some cases at the moment . |
| 25 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 26 | Watch him stretch , yawn , look across at me and come out with those perfect forty-year-old clichés they use to make the time pass easily and without controversy . |
| 27 | Yet it 's James they have to thank every time they sink into their armchairs to listen to their favourite classics . |
| 28 | ‘ There are no barriers being put up on the basis of age but the national team is now in a situation in qualifying Group I where they have to produce every time in the six ties that remain to be played . |
| 29 | The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution . |
| 30 | It helps to pass the time . |