Example sentences of "you [vb base] [to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger |
| 2 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 3 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 4 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 5 | To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value . |
| 6 | But , of course , if you 're going to be another voice you really need to know what you 're talking about and you need to have vast access to information at least as good as all the departments who are putting forward their voices , and you need to have the time and the staff and I do n't think they always had that . |