Example sentences of "[adv prt] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is particularly important in a three-act ballet where any temptation to display dance ‘ for its own sake ’ can lead to the introduction of divertissements merely to fill in time or show off all the dancers in the company , but is not concerned with the unfolding of the story . |
| 2 | In the late 1940s and 1950s the fast reactor was held in such esteem that other forms of nuclear power generation were seen as filling in time until the FBRs were ready to go on stream . |
| 3 | On either side of the steep trail down again , at the end of the hill , grazing ponies lined the track — presumably filling in time between summers , when they earn their living giving children rides up and down the beach . |
| 4 | These schools therefore , and inevitably , developed within themselves quite different curricular packages — some of a grammar-school type , some of a technical or vocational variety , some designed to fill in time in the least troublesome way for growing adolescents . |
| 5 | Recreational reading can be defined as a pastime by which the reader fills in time pleasantly . |
| 6 | As a sideline , to fill in time when the shop was devoid of customers , Tommy repaired umbrellas on a bench tucked away in the corner . |
| 7 | For Annabel , it was merely a means of filling in time before she starts rehearsals for her starring role in Cinderella in Norwich this month , when she appears with Gary Webster , of Minder , dancer Lionel Blair , and ‘ a lady from Teabag ’ , whose name she could n't remember . |
| 8 | Be sure to fill in time sheets correctly and to let your manager know as soon as possible if you are unable to work as arranged , or be available on call . |
| 9 | Today I had four baths to fill in time and I invented you . |
| 10 | More to fill in time , and perhaps to find out if the God of his childhood really did exist , after all . |
| 11 | Tip-top young fellow , filling in time before Cambridge . |
| 12 | Naughtie had been filling in time . |
| 13 | The story centres on the world of Cameron Colley , a hack from the P J O'Rourke school of journalism , who fills in time between big stories with a sniff of this , a swig of that , a bit of the other … |
| 14 | and erm we u had a boat on the Nile and the police came with us on camels and another barge with the servants and er so on the way er we made marmalade and all sorts of things to fill in time . |
| 15 | Switching codes holds no fears for Sillars Stalker who , having topped off his last jumping campaign with a four-timer , filled in time during the summer , scoring three times on the Flat . |
| 16 | He studied the draft of the report he had sent to Burnell and re-examined it , going over time and again all he had learnt since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 17 | Taken over time , this series of systematic changes in the interconnected network of market decisions constitutes the market process . |
| 18 | Not only that , it was brought up time and again by the media and used to undermine the serious work that he was trying so hard to do . |
| 19 | A chasm has undoubtedly developed , but the sporadic re-emergency of the blasted simulators — they keep crawling up time and time again with bedraggled , sanguine hollers of intent - and the beady eyes cast by all manner of unlikely contenders on pop 's centre stage ( ‘ We see no reason why this band should n't be huge ’ ) — suggests that our new proposition of an overground and underground sticks in the craw . |
| 20 | It is the word which came up time and again in the story of Jacob 's tricking his dying father . |
| 21 | Once someone has established themselves as being the right sort of chap , then their name crops up time and again . |
| 22 | Having completed the steeplechase , I let the horse canter along for about half a kilometre , then I allow him to walk for nearly a whole kilometre , bearing in mind , you will most likely have to ‘ make up time ’ later on . |
| 23 | Though it was noon when I set out , I made up time , maintaining a speed of almost five miles an hour . |
| 24 | Soon after Manfred and Gloria had gone , when I was hurrying to make up time , a second German couple jumped out of another Land Rover . |
| 25 | Meetings are infamous for taking up time when people claim they would otherwise be doing ‘ proper ’ work . |
| 26 | Bean bags , cloth or woollen balls can all be used and at clearing up time the various balls can be sorted . |
| 27 | The word ‘ magical ’ crops up time and again as she talks about her work . |
| 28 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 29 | Locking up time |
| 30 | Evidence that they achieve any results other than taking up time and leaving you sticky is not , to the best of my knowledge , available . |