Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 2 | For one reason or another , either it is too long before the courts are available to try the cases , or the lawyers appear to require too much time to prepare the defence . |
| 3 | Do you honestly think your company 's so scintillating that I want to spend still more time in it ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Chief executives of international companies want to spend more personal time on stakeholder issues , ’ he says . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , you seem to spend singularly little time on your — um — aquatic investigation . ’ |
| 6 | So , if you find that too many of your shots come into the wobbly category , resolve to do better next time by concentrating on getting this basic technique right . |
| 7 | Sir Ranulph and his wife Ginny — the first woman ever to be awarded the Polar Medal — try to spend as much time as possible at their home on Exmoor , but even between expeditions , there is a lot of travelling to do . |
| 8 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 9 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 10 | We can go down to Aquae Sulis for a bit of steaming an' that , you need to get away funny time of the moon coming up , know what I mean ? |
| 11 | One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah . |
| 12 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |