Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you are going to speak in them , slow down to allow time for the sound to travel .
2 Work for the A-level examination in English Literature means a narrow concentration on a limited number of texts , and curricular pressures do not leave time for the undirected contextual reading that would provide broader literary experience .
3 We do not waste time on abstract philosophical arguments about ‘ rights ’ .
4 ‘ Rich people do not waste time in our village . ’
5 Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote .
6 If parents do not find time for such training they will spend more time scolding and correcting at a later stage .
7 Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery .
8 In effect , large objects moving at hypersonic velocities do not have time to ‘ see ’ the atmosphere before cratering the surface .
9 Some commentators get so excited about identifying the stuff with an excretion of insects living on twigs of the tamarisk , that they do not have time for much else .
10 I personally do not have time for delays in this operation , and my approach has been ratified at the highest levels .
11 That they are empty other than at times when children are out of their classrooms or outside the school premises is a constant reminder that primary-school teachers do not have time in the working day to do other than teach .
12 Stand by your principles but do n't waste time on lost causes .
13 I mean if you ca n't get it quite quickly and get to grips with it , do n't waste time on it .
14 As we filed out , Joy noticed ill-disguised interest on the faces of the undertaker and bearers of the next party waiting for their ceremony ( they do n't waste time in these places , and you may be penalized if you are late ) .
15 If by then you are within five minutes of the end of the examination period do n't waste time by writing such fatuous remarks as " sorry , no time " .
16 Do n't waste time by playing games .
17 Do n't waste time by avoiding difficult issues .
18 We do n't take time over it .
19 You 're sort of running around all the time , so you do n't get time for anything else .
20 You 're sorta runnin' about all the time , so you do n't get time for anythin' else really .
21 It enables those who do n't have time to be volunteers to get involved .
22 ‘ Doctors do n't have time to be beautiful , ’ Charity informed her ruefully .
23 but erm , I think I down by his legs , all this and erm , you know , its bang , bang its just like , its over in a split second , you do n't have time to be this , I was there and there nobody really new what was going on and all this sort of stuff , he was probably one of most honest about , well , one of the most honest little bloke more willing to speak about it , and he had this other one it was right you know like , er , well I 'm already taking further than I 'm willing to go on this course , what you need is , well look , you know , all I know is that we was first , saying no more than that , not willing to go .
24 Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’
25 ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara .
26 ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m .
27 ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’
28 I do n't have time for all this rubbish . ’
29 We do n't have time for the sort of substantive exchanges we would like .
30 Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies .
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