Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 2 | Yes and you 've got the time |
| 3 | Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs . |
| 4 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 5 | At the same time he has no political authority , er , representing as it were the British government , he 's just an individual of stature , and he 's got the time and the energy to do it . |
| 6 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |