Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll go anywhere at the ring of a phone , and he spends much time on the road . |
| 2 | Boris , a quiet , humorous Scot from Aberdeen , is 30 now and he knows that time is not on his side as he tries to improve his world ranking of 35 . |
| 3 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 4 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 5 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 6 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 7 | It has accumulated a pile of volcanic material 10km thick and it has five times the volume of Hawaii in spite of a long-term rate of volcanic activity less than one-sixth as high . |