Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] time [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 2 | It was the tradition in the family for sons to serve their time at sea , and then to command the company 's ships . |
| 3 | Now , however , celebrities tend to give their time to causes rather than direct events — though the occasional deserving disasters , such as last year 's Jamaican hurricane , squeeze through . |
| 4 | The only other staffer at London 's Shell Centre is editorial assistant George Phillips , who has to divide his time between Shell World and other publications . |
| 5 | The MNR responded with a statement issued in Nairobi saying that it had accepted the mediators ' invitation to direct talks but that Chissano was delaying " to extend his time in power " . |
| 6 | It was only because his employer did not want to waste his time in court proceedings that Willy escaped probation and a possible jail sentence . |
| 7 | But it had not eluded Jack Stone , and he had thought that Stone was as prepared to pay his time in prison , in order know return to that normality , as Chrissie was to pay her time in waiting for him . |
| 8 | ‘ If it were n't for your penny-pinching ways I would n't be so eager to spend my time in London . |
| 9 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 10 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 11 | In the station in which the unit is based ( not Easton ) , the attitude of the policemen towards it is not positive , partly as a result of their ambivalent attitudes toward sex crimes , but mostly because it is policed by women , who therefore are said to spend their time in Boots and Marks and Spencer , making it an easy duty ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 12 | Another official said Mr Kohl had earlier accepted the British government 's decision to take its time over ratification in a lengthy parliamentary process that will probably extend into the second half of this year . |
| 13 | It was hard to tell what time of day it was . |