Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 2 | Did they need even more time for that scene change to be safe ? |
| 3 | He said to the Thing : ‘ And do you know how much time we have before he starts going to Florida ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know how much time we 've got with Piper , but I would n't have thought it was much . ’ |
| 5 | And to do the calculation , we must know how much time was available , more generally how many opportunities were available , for the event to occur . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't know how much time there is , you see . ’ |
| 7 | Do let's chat again some time and you can tell me all the gossip about Buck 's new tenants . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't really need too much time to think about it , I just instinctively knew . |
| 9 | The nurse gave a small laugh as he said , ‘ Well , not until he 's ready , and I should think not this time . |
| 10 | If you have n't picked up these two handbooks that are on the table outside , can you do so some time today , okay ? |
| 11 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you can do better this time , ’ said Ymor pleasantly . |
| 13 | Do you think they could do better this time ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's the kind of thing that a busy expanding company like Rothmans ca n't always give as much time to as it would like . |
| 15 | It is expected however that students will give substantially more time and emphasis to one of the two areas of study outlined below : |
| 16 | ‘ We should do well this time it will suit some of our players better . ’ |
| 17 | It is suggested that if the timetable is important ( as for example , a development timetable in a building lease ) the draftsman should provide expressly that time is to be of the essence . |
| 18 | ( b ) The presumption rebutted ( i ) By express words The parties may always provide expressly that time limits are to be of the essence . |
| 19 | People would say — usually his father — that if he was determined to be an artist , well and good , but why did he spend so much time with books , and silly French novels at that ? |
| 20 | I have seldom , before or since , seen a man spend so much time with his car , be so obsessive about it , put so much work into it , understand it so well and be so unable to divert his attention from it for so much as a minute . |
| 21 | You should n't spend so much time with her you know . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a little strange … that you , the Burgermeister , should spend so much time in the theatre . ’ |
| 23 | Instead of transferring the 4th stitch to the 5th needle on each side of centre 0 , let it run down each time before crossing the cable . |
| 24 | Do n't run away this time . |
| 25 | Opposition Members desperately hope that he will not run away this time . |
| 26 | Private Bills , indeed , will often be passed as a purely formal matter and will occupy hardly any time of the Houses at all . |
| 27 | So you could see out any time you wanted . |
| 28 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
| 29 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
| 30 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |