Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 2 | The authors do not state whether their patients received an oxytocic agent or document its time of administration . |
| 3 | This will introduce the student to the speciality of the ward , and give her time for preparation . |
| 4 | But , again , and with the same patient smile , Morse bade the excitable lady to hold her peace , and bide her time . |
| 5 | Be patient , tolerant and bide your time . |
| 6 | Be patient , tolerant and bide your time . |
| 7 | Asked what was in the fresh package , she said repeatedly : ‘ We are looking at a whole range of options which will help unemployed people , in particular long-term unemployed , to keep in touch with the workplace , keep their skills updated and use their time more productively than some of the rules and regulations currently allow . ’ |
| 8 | Political chaos was having the effect of making Elisabeth and Daniel take stock and order their time on the island particularly efficiently . |
| 9 | They have three children and divide their time between London and a cottage in Milford , Surrey . |
| 10 | Wilko still the bookie 's favourite , but the quote from Graham Kelly the FA Chief was that anyone appointed now is just there as a caretaker , because they want to change things around and take their time now that we have nothing to play for till 1998 . |
| 11 | There will be a tendency for you to be accident-prone , so whatever you do , slow down , and take your time . |
| 12 | Why do n't you just steal the briefcase and take your time ? ’ |
| 13 | Reach the bollard which gives you the opportunity to pause , and take your time before you look in the opposite direction and cross the other half of the road . |
| 14 | And take your time . ’ |
| 15 | There , sit , and take your time . |
| 16 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 17 | Pigs live in forests and grasslands and spend their time eating ( almost anything ) , sleeping ( always under cover ) and , if they 're female , being with each other . |
| 18 | Quite simply you come to San Antonio to get away from home and spend your time with people of your own kind , doing whatever you want to do . |
| 19 | Do n't be daft and spend your time looking at your feet , just lead with your forehead . |
| 20 | No sooner were the purple crocuses out in the garden than I would take the morning bus into the city and spend my time in the main reference library reading and rereading the newspaper accounts of the trial . |
| 21 | Apparently they neither walk nor swim , but spend their time either in the air or perched on a branch of a tree to roost . |