Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 2 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 3 | The principal method of investigation is to show people sentences one at a time on a computer screen and measure the time it takes to understand a sentence . |
| 4 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 5 | To improve the assimilation of new staff into CA and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |
| 6 | To improve the assimilation of new overseas staff into CA and Britain , and reduce the time it takes for them to be working to full potential |