Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll never forget the time you … ’ can be an aggrieved refrain in real marriages as well as in music-hall jokes . |
| 2 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Add in some fancy graduated tint backgrounds or some a scanned logo and you 'll really see the time tick by . |
| 4 | I do n't mind because if you 've got the questions we 'll we 'll certainly spend the time . |
| 5 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 6 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 7 | Whole-class teaching , usually seen as the device most likely to keep children on task , may well reduce distraction ( or at least distraction of an undisguised kind ) but it may also increase the time children spend awaiting attention , and indeed our own figures on group sizes tend to confirm this . |
| 8 | Most obviously it means that the ‘ birds ’ sang at a previous moment in time but it could also mean the time of year , the time of the poet 's life , and most strikingly , it could be another word connected with death . |