Example sentences of "the time [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not want to waste a moment of the time they would have . |
| 2 | No that 's the time they would have won , twenty to four |
| 3 | What our staffing levels do n't allow us to do is for the care assistants to have the time they would like just to spend talking to elderly people , talking them write letters , get in touch with their relatives . |
| 4 | All the time we would talk in English . |
| 5 | They might be about er a month old , perhaps six weeks old and we used to get them sometimes , most of the time we would get about four there , sometimes three . |
| 6 | But we hoped all the time we would turn the corner . |
| 7 | On the other hand er , if we did what our friend from Cheltenham is doing we would have lo , we would be looking forward like that all the time we would have some idea . |
| 8 | All the time I would like to be somewhere else , someone else . |
| 9 | If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself . |
| 10 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 11 | Half the time I would say . |
| 12 | Well up until the time I would be about eight years old when my father decided there was a change in the estate then and it was off to Argyllshire Dalmally that Sir Douglas and Lady as she was then decided to go and wanted my father to come with him . |
| 13 | At a time when he was lounging about in bed most of the time I would have loved a bed tray but I not think , I do n't think I 'm going to bother with one now . |
| 14 | I have reason to believe that if I were to ask you the time you would n't be able to accommodate me . |
| 15 | So it 's six hundred times , what does one take away nought point three come from , to , one point one point nought , take away nought point three , we 'll try it on here , one point nought take away nought point three , I mean , most of the time you would be actually using the |
| 16 | It would , she saw , be perfectly possible for her and Pilade to go to England the following year if someone could be found to run her boarding house for the time it would take . |
| 17 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 18 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 19 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 20 | And although safe conduct was officially guaranteed to either faction during the time it would take to reach the site , parley and then ride home , many truces failed to hold . |
| 21 | Early in 1976 Austrian Niki Lauda said that it was totally unsuitable because of the time it would take firefighters to reach some parts of the vast circuit . |
| 22 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 23 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Yet in the time it would take her to reach the café , tell Oliver and return with him , the flat would be empty and she would never know who her intruder was . |
| 26 | We have already identified this as a problem but at least the opportunity for manipulation was constrained by the time it would take to receive the invoice . |
| 27 | Not this moment , and perhaps not ever again , despite the time it would still take to confront that knowledge . |
| 28 | ‘ You are being very naughty , ’ McAllister whispered back , pretending to be severe , ‘ and the only thing that I can say in your favour is that I am in nearly as bad a way as you are , and know exactly how you feel — but be patient , it can not be long now , ’ for she knew that once the bazaar was over , and she was at last able to tell him the truth , they could go ahead with their marriage plans , the only delaying thing being the time it would take Mama and Papa to cross the Atlantic . |
| 29 | He , more than any other ornithologist , knew what to look for and would be able , with the help of a few hand-picked collectors , to assemble a substantial collection in a fraction of the time it would take should he stay home and await specimens sent by less reliable amateurs . |
| 30 | It would seem that erm i it was n't in the interests of one 's ultimate reproductive success to be too easily satisfied too much of the time because remember , it 's a question of relative reproductive success an and the individual that gets that little extra is is effectively gon na be , gon na be the one selected , so yes I would think that erm it 's probably naive to think that natural selection would , would make you feel er satisfied and content all the time it would probably induce erm a state of mild chronic discontent which is I think what most people actually experience in life |