Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 2 | For all these people the first Sunday of Lent marked the time when Bishop Brewer , in the name of the Church , called them to journey with the Church towards Easter when they will be baptised , or received into full communion with the Church . |
| 3 | Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall . |
| 4 | Students felt that the need to learn large amounts of work left no time for the challenge of individual discovery . |
| 5 | The acceleration of transit shortens the time available for the bacteria to split the azo-bond . |
| 6 | So do n't risk pregnancy — use a reliable method of birth control every time you make love . |
| 7 | As the rim brushed her groin Sally felt a sharp sweet pleasure which seemed to shoot up inside her on silken cords to that deep core where the trickles of excitement played every time she thought of Pete . |
| 8 | And the agents are likely to rebel against time-wasting vetting every time they go to work . |
| 9 | Come about midnight put the time plan . |
| 10 | TOMORROW 'S GARDENS SEASONS GREETINGS Perfect plants for year-round displays SUCCEED WITH HOLLIES Berries every time with our simple guide WIN A COMPLETE SET OF ‘ POWER ’ TOOLS SENSATIONAL NEW SEEDS for 1993 Make a Christmas decoration for your door IDEA-PACKED PAGES OF GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR ALL THE FAMILY |
| 11 | He spent an uncomfortable day surrounded by burly miners threatening to smash his Dansette with baseball bats every time he put on another part from the ‘ Ring Cycle ’ . |
| 12 | Maggie Wheeler makes her guests feel entirely at home and certainly it is very easy to relax in this ‘ no rules ’ atmosphere , where you can enjoy meeting the other guests around the kitchen table in an informal atmosphere with Maggie taking the time to help you plan your itinerary . |
| 13 | He talked of an Italian plan to stop the war and have a conference instead , he said he was in touch with France to agree a time limit for Germany to withdraw and be forgiven , it came across as craven . |
| 14 | A journalist in Yorkshire recounts the time he bumped into Selina and her father at York Station . |
| 15 | Obviously every record company in Britain wasted no time in sniffing out the possibilities of picking up the band . |
| 16 | First though , a severely disabled woman from Oxford says every time she travels by train , she 's put in the guard 's van . |
| 17 | When you consider that it costs 40p in bank charges every time a cheque is cashed , or that a covenant will increase your contribution by a third ( if you pay income tax ) , you will appreciate why the fund raising and marketing department is so keen on these cost-effective methods ! |
| 18 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 19 | Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , said : ‘ I kept on writing poetry while I was in hospital to fill the time and keep my spirits up . ’ |
| 20 | It allows matters of lesser importance to be decided without troubling the whole Cabinet ; and major issues to be clarified in order to save the time of the Cabinet . |
| 21 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 22 | The TRACE II designers had to duplicate the entire knowledge network over and over in order to represent the time course of speech processing . |
| 23 | In order to justify the time spent on producing them , the copies should be consistently clear and legible . |
| 24 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 25 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 26 | If anyone who went to the game on Sat has the time and inclination to write a report on it , I for one would be glad to read it . |
| 27 | The stock response to such qualms is that it is difficult for humans to grasp a time scale of such length . |
| 28 | Those who ask for reports have no time to read long ones- nor will they take the trouble to unravel texts like the example given above . |
| 29 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 30 | At turnoff estimate the time taken for the phase current to fall to zero and the proportion of the stored inductive energy returned to the supply . |