Example sentences of "time [prep] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ And I have no wish for time to soon pass , as you express it — were time to pass that quickly , I should very soon be an old old woman . |
| 3 | Engine management gauges are few ( oil temperature and pressure plus a rev counter ) and it is good practice to allow such small vintage power units sufficient time to thoroughly warm up before committing one 's future prospects to them . |
| 4 | Generously , the staff of Decommission-ing and Radwaste have temporarily decommissioned their vehicle so that the thrushes have time to successfully raise their family . |
| 5 | Rachel had a fleeting impression of mid-brown hair , clear grey eyes , clean-shaven strong features and a firm square jaw , then , not giving her time to even think , her hand was clasped in a firm handshake as Julie went on , ‘ Rachel , David Markham . |
| 6 | The move brought his mouth much too close to hers , and he took advantage of that fact before she had time to even consider evasive action . |
| 7 | Beat it for ten minutes , that 's it seems an awfully long time to just stand there and . |
| 8 | The opportunity and the time to just talk to some kids and sound them out … or y' know , listen to what they 've got to say — have the time to do that . |
| 9 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 10 | It 's just , to me , it just makes me feel so much different if I have time to just potter about you know ? |
| 11 | Some are n't strong on language and need time to just look at things , like a fish , without words . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If you have an aim for your children , I think it is a waste of time to just let them dilly-dally with any old person . |
| 13 | Although it should not normally be necessary , ‘ bulk ’ can be used at any time to completely refresh LIFESPAN information in the relational database . |
| 14 | And time to either discuss their illness with people who understand how they feel , and the way that people react , or to just relax and forget all about the fact they 're living with it . |
| 15 | Me brain 's so bloody crinkled up with other things I have n't got time to bloody think about driving . |
| 16 | Most of the organisations listed area run by volunteer enthusiasts who give up their spare time to painstakingly restore and operate these fascinating survivors from the great age of steam . |
| 17 | And that 's difficult , because you need a bit of lead in time to actually think it all through . |
| 18 | When it came time to actually record the chosen composite solo , each note was checked over what seemed like millions of times . |
| 19 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 20 | but if you think about it , if you 've done a good job , you 've done a good presentation , done a good fact find and they buy , then they should be very happy at that moment in time and er it was stupid because that is the right time to actually ask |
| 21 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 22 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 23 | Sure , they 're more upfront , but it takes time to actually understand what 's being said . |
| 24 | Like a raider , he had swooped on a series of nightclubs , probably before their owners even had time to fully appreciate what had hit them . |
| 25 | ‘ Five of the grandchildren went to Euro Disney on a school trip and loved it but did n't have time to really do it justice . |
| 26 | She 's actually a really nice woman and she took a lot of time to really explain to me what was going on with her at that time . |
| 27 | I remember thinking in ‘ 79 that it was time to really go for something , to finally try something different ; to be radical . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been in the League five years and have decided now is the time to really go for promotion . ’ |
| 29 | Erm my , I have n't had the time to really absorb what is in them and obviously the board would feel the same . |
| 30 | with time to really get issues like that under way . |