Example sentences of "up [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He likes to take up my time , looking for copy . |
| 2 | If gravity was strong , I could go to the top floor of the building and speed up my time . |
| 3 | For Dorothea suddenly saw herself as an old woman badgering a friend into giving up her time and company , and , self-sufficient as she had always been , the picture repelled her . |
| 4 | Elinor Pringle — Flora 's neighbour — grass-widowed by her husband 's political work and his play-writing , fills up her time at the cinema or in provincial towns , and sits alone in melancholy pubs . |
| 5 | First Fergus , then the twins , then her own small part in the society of the town and the people there , and in the wider , still circumferential concerns of this wee country 's middle-to-ruling classes , and in the more dissipated commonwealth of mildly powerful people who were their peers beyond that — in England , on the continent , from the States and elsewhere — took up her time , sapped her will and replaced her own concerns with theirs . |
| 6 | That would take up her time , make her forget Ruth . |
| 7 | Love encapsuled every minute they spent together — not many minutes as there was a lot for Maman to do in the day , hours of grown-up stuff which ate up her time . |
| 8 | When some boys at the school put excrement under the headmaster 's chair , he contrasted the culprits unfavourably with true school sportsmen : ‘ Last Friday I was feeling pretty low when I found out about this lot … but then I went to football on Saturday , there were several lads and teachers there , playing their hearts out or giving up their time just for the school , and then I thought , ‘ Perhaps , it 's not so bad after all . ’ |
| 9 | Teachers gave up their time , unpaid ; prime acres of sports fields stood underused and education authorities did not bother to count the cost of bussing children half-way across a city for an afternoon 's soccer . |
| 10 | How will you go about lavishly praising people for giving up their time to attend the meeting ? |
| 11 | They made me welcome and gave up their time to talk freely and openly about everything that had happened to them . |
| 12 | Other things of more importance took up their time . |
| 13 | The fact that business men have volunteered to give up their time and expertise to TECs is a major new breakthrough in the delivery of policies at local level . |
| 14 | They summon the overseers before the magistrates for not complying with their unreasonable demands and though they do not always gain their ends yet it teases and harasses the overseers and takes up their time which is a great hardship . |
| 15 | The event is paid for each year by donations from businesses , individuals and organisations , with the motorists giving up their time to drive the children to and from Southport . |
| 16 | I 'm very grateful to all those who support us , both by donating prizes and money and by giving up their time to help us . |
| 17 | However it is not only the famous who give up their time as there are hundreds of missionaries all around the world trying to help people of the same and different religions through worship to God . |
| 18 | But may I add a special welcome to the unsung heroines and heroes who are not permanent staff , but give up their time — and in some cases their entire annual leave — to work for the Festival when the high pressure time arrives . |
| 19 | For the good student , therefore , there is nothing more important in examination technique than dividing up his time as equally as may be between all the questions . |
| 20 | At first he had assumed that it was taking much longer than the boy had estimated or that his work on the Project was taking up his time , but this explained it all . |
| 21 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 22 | Ryan , Ryan was doing four hours on the Saturday morning to make up his time , right ? |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the " fundamental substance which takes up our time remains the transition from capitalism to socialism on a world scale ushered in by the Great October Soviet Revolution " . |
| 24 | Your son resents his stepbrother for taking up your time , and is worried that you do n't love him any more . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry to take up your time . |
| 26 | ‘ I hope that I shall not be taking up your time needlessly , ’ Catherine said , ‘ but something has been troubling me . |
| 27 | Many thanks for giving up your time to meet myself and my colleagues last week . |
| 28 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 29 | Lots of things take up your time at work . |
| 30 | Which ones take up your time ? |