Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 2 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 3 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
| 4 | Here the problem is finding the time to get things done . ’ |
| 5 | The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do . |