Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squeeze his sides and Mickey opens his mouth and talks the time . |
| 2 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 3 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 4 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 5 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 6 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 7 | If you like cooking and have the time to experiment , there is a recipe section on pages 133–150 , which you might like to try , and in the reading list you will find a selection of recipe books that you might like to dip into . |
| 8 | Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign . |
| 9 | That would take a good hour and kill the time . |
| 10 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 11 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 12 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 13 | It 's precious meeting the odd soul on a high top and passing the time of day with them , knowing that no matter who or what they are , you share the same interests in wildlife , wilderness and solitude . |
| 14 | The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months . |
| 15 | Their television colleagues were more patrician , only occasionally deigning to nod down at the page and scribble the time of an important section of Blanche 's statement . |
| 16 | Andrew Golightly Ltd is applying to Durham County Council to vary planning permission for opencast mining and a drift mine at South Brandon , Brancepeth , by dropping the proposal for the drift mine and extending the time limit for restoration of the site . |
| 17 | ( a ) which locates your project within a set of defined contexts ( geographical , historical , economic , social , political , scientific , technological or combination ) ; ( b ) which locates your project within a specific organization , where appropriate , delimiting those areas you intend to cover , those you propose to ignore — and why ; and ( c ) which locates your project within an historical continuum and explains the time scale within which you carried out your empirical research ( a chronology may be useful in an appendix ) . |
| 18 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 19 | On that day we scrutinised all the temporary folders in the box and noted the time that had elapsed since the proper notes had been requested . |
| 20 | I signed Tommy Titmouse in a scrawl and put the time . |
| 21 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 22 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 23 | If you 're if you had n't earned the money well you did n't go into it in detail and get the time and motion study man |
| 24 | A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months . |
| 25 | Puts watch on table and records the time on a pad . ) |