Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 2 | Indeed , she had been half expecting it for some time now . |
| 3 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |
| 4 | IBM Corp has been doing it for some time , and now Wordperfect Corp is doing it too — applying for patents on their software rather than relying copyright law : reason is that , as the Wall Street Journal explains , a patent can provide a company with exclusive use of its patented programs for a fixed number of years , even if another company develops the idea independently ; copyright , which is created as soon as an idea is expressed in an original way , protects only the expression of the idea , not the idea itself , and it does n't confer exclusive use if someone else develops the same software independently ; downside is that getting a patent costs big — in both time and money — and once it expires , the technology it describes is free for all . |
| 5 | They 've been doing it for some time at the Biro , Perth is |
| 6 | And those of yo you who 've been doing it for some time will now realise how easy it has made the momegiture . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 8 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |
| 9 | the pool with blood , staining it for all time , |
| 10 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |
| 11 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 12 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 13 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 14 | Cohse branch secretary at Greenbank Sheila Bowes said : ‘ Nurses do n't want this move but management have been contemplating it for some time . ’ |