Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're doing a time consuming operation . |
| 2 | Academic booksellers and publishers are facing a time of profound change . |
| 3 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 4 | The boat 's heating is not working , the crew 's sleeping bags are damp and several of them have been seasick , but the verdict is unanimous : they are having the time of their loves . |
| 5 | ‘ For your information , those ‘ poor little girls ’ of yours are having the time of their lives playing tag around our office . |
| 6 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 7 | I really am having the time of my life . |
| 8 | The member of staff on playground duty can be taking a policing role or can be using the time to motivate and interest children . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose the difficulty is going to be finding a time in the next couple of weeks when we 're both free . ’ |
| 11 | Phyllis Bowman said at the weekend that the best the society could hope for would be reducing the time limit to 18 weeks . |
| 12 | But you might say , and I councillor did say in fact that of course we would be most unfair in the way that we did this because to quote from him er we were giving no time , no time for discussion , no time for evaluation no time . |
| 13 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 14 | She 's wasting no time on me , Kate thought , as she was deftly served before the girl turned back to show Ace her white teeth once again . |
| 15 | RETIRING House of Commons Speaker Bernard Weatherill is wasting no time in heading for the world of business . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the president is filling the time with less provocative suggestions . |
| 17 | Ease of access to the garden , especially if you grow your own herbs , vegetables and fruit , is also important , as is minimising the time you spend answering the front and back doors . |
| 18 | it 's getting the time to do it . |
| 19 | ‘ If you ask me , she 's having the time of her life . |
| 20 | Barbel says the key to happiness is adapting to different situations and enjoying them equally … bomber pilot and society hostess , she 's having the time of her life . |
| 21 | And your old uncle is having the time of his life , and wishes he could write better letters . |
| 22 | Goram 's looking after number one Andy Goram is having the time of his life with Rangers and Scotland , but the road to the top has been strewn with pitfalls . |
| 23 | Here the problem is finding the time to get things done . ’ |
| 24 | The problem is finding the time to do everything I 'd like to do . |
| 25 | I do n't think it will be hard , it 's finding the time to do it properly . |
| 26 | It 's leaving the time |
| 27 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 28 | It was through school generally and school teachers in particular that his interest was aroused and : ‘ When I was approaching the time to leave school , my interest was in athletics ; I either wanted to join the army as a PE instructor or I thought about taking a course in physical education . ’ |
| 29 | And he was having the time of his life . |
| 30 | The difficulty was finding a time to instruct them . |