Example sentences of "time [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah Miles has a fine old time as the wife , alternating that disconcertingly seraphic smile with lots of mad laughter and howls of outrage , while Greg Hicks suggests a bitter soul in torment as Harry , all cold sarcasm and inner pain . |
| 2 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 3 | The rescue came in the nick of time as the sewer filled with flash flood water just minutes after the pony was brought out . |
| 4 | Random insertions to balanced tree files that use two index entries per track took rather less time as the overflow percentage in the file built up . |
| 5 | Table 3 and Table 4 also emphasise the significant increase in reaction time as the level of processing increases . |
| 6 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 7 | Tenure differences may become sharper in time as the proportion of households in each tenure changes . |
| 8 | What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car . |
| 9 | If you want to use three or four colours in one row on a Passap/Pfaff machine you will need to punch your card or mark your mylar sheet especially for the design but you need to mark only one row at a time as the machine automatically knits the two rows . |
| 10 | So we are talking in general terms about being willing to share our time , energy , space and care , particularly with people who have been recently bereaved through some major form of loss , maybe for a shod period of time while they readjust , maybe for a long time as the person or people involved learn to face life 's vicissitudes alone . |
| 11 | Experimentation and development go on all the time as the company searches for new ways to capture and build on the knowledge already accumulated by its workers . |
| 12 | Despite their constant preoccupation with temporal phenomena , the Maya never attained the idea of time as the journey of a single bearer with his load . |
| 13 | Group sales exceeded £10 billion for the first time as the Group served over ten million customers each week . |
| 14 | But Minch had often told him that faith in Callanish waxed and waned through time as the wind itself changes through the day , and that eagles often forgot it , and wanted to forget . |
| 15 | He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it . |
| 16 | The reconstruction of extinct species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers , who were thus disposed to see development through time as the unfolding of purely formal relationships between successive species . |
| 17 | There was little effort at first to study how the ecological balance could shift through time as the result of evolution . |
| 18 | Ideals have always been developed over long periods of time as the result of historical evolutions and through exceptional personalities . |
| 19 | As we have seen , the seed of the idea of Franco as the providential saviour and guardian of the " true " Spain had been planted in his and his admirers ' minds during his time as the Director of the Military Academy in Zaragoza . |
| 20 | No longer 13¾ , Adrian , 22¾ , has popped up again , this time as the PASS /Harrison Willis Trainee Accountant of the Year . |
| 21 | And the bill he , that he gets at the same as the time as the delivery , and what 's normal credit conditions ? |
| 22 | And known that particular time as the steel town of Scotland . |
| 23 | I mean she might suddenly find that she ca n't get the time off the hotel , or she changes her mind , I do n't know . |
| 24 | Any dog really should live in a house with a garden , have at least an accompanied two mile walk a day , with some time off the leash in which to run around . |
| 25 | Decide on the time off the diet , plan proper balanced meals with the odd luxury for this period , and do not go wild and regain your lost weight . |
| 26 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 27 | And even if the political tangle in South Africa is unravelled quickly there are many leading rugby people in New Zealand , including the new All Black coach , Laurie Mains , who suggest that now is not a good time for the resumption of New Zealand-South African contests — New Zealand have to recover a lot of the ground lost at the World Cup before they would feel comfortable of having a winning chance against South Africa . |
| 28 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 29 | Now you 've narrowed the choice down to more manageable proportions , it 's time for the specialist retailer and test fitting . |
| 30 | Fill with lemon curd — about 6 to 8 tablespoons — and put back into the oven for 5 minutes , just enough time for the filling to warm through , no more . |