Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [det] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No date or venue is yet set , but ( i ) it will obviously take some time to organise properly and publicise/market effectively and ( ii ) the most likely venue is Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Horses paddocked on a hillside will normally spend more time running along the higher boundary than the lower one — they need to get to the top of the hill for visual freedom . |
| 3 | This puts enormous pressures on staff , who do n't always have enough time to do the stock checking . |
| 4 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 5 | In ordinary circumstances the family contemplating spending a considerable amount of money would probably spend some time shopping around getting quotations . |
| 6 | And as Bethan found , it may also take some time to find a treatment that 's right for you . |
| 7 | Er but erm obviously I 'll sometimes need some time to get back to you . |
| 8 | After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that . |
| 9 | You will therefore have less time to spend with the puppy during this crucial early settling-in phase . |
| 10 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 11 | There should never be more than two or three essential points , for you will never get enough time to make any more . |