Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |
| 2 | I was enjoying running but was still not going to put in the time necessary to break into the top rank . |
| 3 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 4 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 5 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 6 | The success of American Football in Britain illustrates a growing antipathy towards our national games for failing to change with the times . |
| 7 | In other words , the worst criticism which could be levelled against the failure to recruit blacks was that of falling to move with the times . |
| 8 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 9 | ‘ Rather than most people sitting waiting at airports — reading a book , desperately trying to get through the time , I was trying to capture the kind of hell they were going through . |
| 10 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |