Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I am writing to apologise for not having been in touch to arrange a time to visit your new editing facility in Wellington Square . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 7 | The TRACE II designers had to duplicate the entire knowledge network over and over in order to represent the time course of speech processing . |
| 8 | In order to justify the time spent on producing them , the copies should be consistently clear and legible . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 11 | The stock response to such qualms is that it is difficult for humans to grasp a time scale of such length . |
| 12 | Fishermen have sailed along the Thames in convoy to Westminster to protest at plans to cut the time they can spend at sea . |
| 13 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |