Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 2 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 3 | Parkinson 's Disease seems to be marking time at the moment . |
| 4 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 5 | The Prince of Wales was missing from Ascot , suffering from renewed back trouble , and the Princess of Wales was reported to be spending time with their sons on half-term in London . |
| 6 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
| 7 | While children were spending time on task and on different curriculum areas in similar proportions to those identified in other studies , it was also clear that such figures are by no means inevitable or appropriate . |
| 8 | Most departments had their offices , though there were constant difficulties about telephones and electricity supplies , and very little in the way of fans ; communications between departments had to be carried on by messenger , for internal postal services were taking time to be reorganised . |
| 9 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 10 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 11 | He 's doing time in Whitely as well . |
| 12 | The average Tube-goer 's travelling time to work is 52 minutes and rising by several seconds every week . |
| 13 | Simon now lives at a nursing home in Hampshire … but after all they 've been through together , he 's spending time with his mum and dad . |
| 14 | ‘ We are trying to play a different type of game and it 's taking time for some of the players to get used to it . |
| 15 | The Red crew gained a length by the mile post and 2 ½ by Hammersmith Bridge , but the freshmen hung on to lose by about the same margin , six seconds behind Red Alligator 's winning time of 19min 46sec . |
| 16 | The Soviet Union is offering time on the Salyut 7 X-ray telescopes not only to France , but also to Holland , West Germany and the European Space Agency . |
| 17 | It was getting time for the last bus across London Bridge for the District Line . |
| 18 | He abused his inheritance , behaved extravagantly , and nearly got his comeuppance from the weasels — a violent proletariat who squatted in his house while he was doing time for car theft . |
| 19 | He was doing time for debt , as I recall . |
| 20 | She was doing time for several rather serious drug-related offences . |
| 21 | The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it . |
| 22 | If the operative part could properly be controlled by the recitals , I think there would be much reason to say that the only thing contemplated by the recitals was giving time for payment , without any relinquishment , on the part of the judgment creditor , of any portion of the amount recoverable ( whether for principal or for interest ) under the judgment . |
| 23 | It was taking time for Britain to recover from the First World War . |
| 24 | But on his last full campaigning day in Monklands East , a depressed part of west central Scotland badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , he was making time for the locals he has represented — with a boundary change — since 1970 . |
| 25 | Nancy Graves was working in the 1970s on ‘ ocean Floor , Weather , Moon and mars ’ and the ‘ Antartica ’ mapping series ( now in the National Gallery , Washington ) ; Vera Frankel was mapping time in ‘ nap with Gates ’ and ‘ The Knowles Window ’ in 1973 ; 9 Adrian Piper in 1969 had produced booklets of her mapping activities ; Alice Aycock used her master 's thesis 1971 ( researched under Robert Morris ) as the basis of a work about network systems . |