Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was surprised she could spare the time in the middle of an election campaign and concluded it was genuinely urgent . |
| 32 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
| 33 | She could spare the time for France . |
| 34 | She could remember the times when she had patronisingly tried to include some wallflower into a party , inwardly breathing a sigh of relief that she was n't like that . |
| 35 | He could remember that there was an age for puppets and magic , just as he could remember the time that he 'd spent trying to fan a deck of cards or sitting in front of a mirror trying to get the hard consonants down like a real ventriloquist . |
| 36 | She glimpsed him through the glass walls of his studio as she walked past , his watch nailed to a tree so that he could see the time . |
| 37 | Are n't there more important things in my life that I could spend the time on that is currently taken up with exercise ? ’ |
| 38 | Rigor mortis was notoriously unreliable , and if he wanted an alibi for himself , Kerrison could shift the time of death by up to an hour without suspicion . |
| 39 | So many problems , worries and woes can be sorted out if only you 'd take the time to sit down and talk things through . |
| 40 | I just thought I 'd find out if I could have the time off — in case . ’ |
| 41 | The chances are it was something like four to six weeks , if they could take the time off from household chores . |
| 42 | This latter would be handed a bus pass and a deck chair , and could pass the time wondering to their hearts ' content why the hell they were there . |
| 43 | I could change the times on Monday a bit . |
| 44 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 45 | With a water-clock inside the tower and sundials outside , visitors could observe the time both by day and by night and also when the sky was cloudy as well as when it was clear . |
| 46 | Sure , there are no working clocks in the entire flat , just one lively broken green thing that ticks happily as if it could tell the time , though the second hand only pulses and stays in one place . |
| 47 | He suggested several ways in which a group such as the Club could reduce the time members have to spend trying to keep up-to-date with the latest developments . |
| 48 | ‘ I need some sleep , ’ he said , hoping he could get the time he wanted . |
| 49 | Heiko Bleher — he 's done things I wish I could find the time to do . |
| 50 | I have enclosed a copy and would be most grateful if you could find the time to scan through it to see if I have made any errors of fact or tactics . |
| 51 | An increase in temperature may halve the time but the total energy cost may increase . |
| 52 | This request for information provides a direction for the conversational fragment , so that we are considering speech with some purpose and not just social chat used to pass the time . |
| 53 | They used to pass the time being cruel to the poor , gambling , whoring and indulging in most other perversions you could care to name . ’ |
| 54 | He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath . |
| 55 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
| 56 | When contracts were exchanged , the conditions of sale would stipulate the time for the delivery of an abstract and thereafter the time for the raising of requisitions upon it . |
| 57 | There would be those who drifted in and would use the time to make up their minds . |
| 58 | A counter-argument might be that standing rules are just one mechanism for weeding out hopeless or frivolous cases at an early stage and protecting government bodies ( rightly or wrongly ) from harassment by ‘ professional litigants ’ ( who else would expend the time and resources necessary to mount a hopeless case ? ) meddling in matters which do not really concern them . |
| 59 | For all her life , Beth would cherish the time they had had together , and she would always regret their parting , and yet , and yet , he was a scoundrel of the worst kind . |
| 60 | With the best will in the world I can not imagine that a meat man would have the time , or that an un-horsy policeman would risk life and limb to scrub the mud from the hooves of every animal which roughly fits the description of a stolen one . |