Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platinum will enable us to eliminate the use of the bureau , and get all of the information at head office on line as we go along , saving a lot of time and money ’ . |
| 2 | This makes the statement easier for your customer to understand and reconcile and will help you be paid faster , as well as saving a lot of time on queries . |
| 3 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 4 | In a 3- or 4-year programme of studies , and with the broadening elements occupying a minority of time and probably concentrated towards the latter half , graduates will have only just begun on this voyage of critical reflection . |
| 5 | Thus only the infinitive is part of the verbal system , and to is an element brought in from outside this system to provide for incidence to a support seen as occupying a place in time before the beginning of the event . |
| 6 | In awarding an extension of time and then , if appropriate , calculating any overheads due to be reimbursed , allowance should be made for any overheads already recouped through additional work items instructed which contributed to the extension of time . |
| 7 | ‘ Pinder told his wife that he would be staying with his sister Helen who lives in Retford , to avoid wasting a lot of time travelling . |
| 8 | It is very easy to end up wasting a lot of time and money preparing reports that you do n't read and no one else does either . |
| 9 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 10 | Despite that , these two women photographers complement one another well , sharing a feeling for time and space , and expressing thoughtfulness about these elements . |
| 11 | Time relations have to do with locating an event in time . |
| 12 | In actions in contract and tort , there is a general right of appeal to the Court of Appeal ( Supreme Court Act 1981 , s.16 ) , which is excluded in relation to particular matters of which the only significant one for our purposes is the exclusion of a right of appeal against a decision of the High Court allowing an extension of time for appealing . |
| 13 | The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time , something that distinguishes the past from the future , giving a direction to time . |
| 14 | Maybe the quantum principle would mean that one could also avoid the histories having a beginning in time , a point of creation , at the big bang . |
| 15 | erm Sue could probably do with spending a bit of time learning about DOS , but I do n't see the point . |
| 16 | spending a bit of time is n't it ? |
| 17 | it wo n't take me , I 'm not spending a load of time on jar jamas |
| 18 | Belinda had been slightly unnerved to find that this man was Faye Hamilton 's obstetrician , and was rather alarmed at the prospect of spending a block of time in his elegant office , becoming familiar with the case history of her new patient . |
| 19 | Consequently I find myself spending a lot of time looking at chairs in museums , shops , exhibitions and other peoples ' houses . |
| 20 | In the 1860s Dostoevsky was spending a lot of time abroad . |
| 21 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 22 | The writer 's kitten is spending a lot of time , and not a little of his owner 's patience , in developing a set of skills specifically to enable him to find and to cope with living prey . |
| 23 | My Oscars are spending a lot of time moping on the bottom of the tank . |
| 24 | This involves spending a lot of time in the sun by the pool listening to girlish giggles as they frolic around . |
| 25 | In London IBM had , according to one journalist , ‘ come pretty close to perfecting the art of understanding British politics ’ in addition to spending a lot of time ‘ explaining technical aspects of information technology ’ to British civil servants . |
| 26 | By completing pictures children can demonstrate their ideas visually without spending a lot of time producing a complicated drawing . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been spending a lot of time round here . |
| 28 | By the time he was two Celia was spending a lot of time in hospitals , poor girl . |
| 29 | If this summer is as warm as last year 's , we 'll all be spending a lot of time out in the garden . |
| 30 | They dug solid foundations , spending a lot of time pouring concrete into four pits . |