Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] time and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 32 | It takes time and effort which might usefully be spent doing something else . |
| 33 | However , it takes time and effort and the action shown in the close-up may have changed or stopped by the time the wide shot begins , so there may be action matching problems . |
| 34 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 35 | It takes time and practice , that 's what Mister Tom had said . |
| 36 | Searching for papers can be annoying to the person being called and it wastes time and money . |
| 37 | It admits it lost time and money on the diversion , but believes the ACE experience taught it ‘ some important lessons . ’ |
| 38 | What is suggested here may seem tedious and unnecessary , but it saves time and frustration in the long run , and makes the checking itself more effective and fruitful . |
| 39 | The big London agencies with their billing largely on television find it saves time and money to farm out some writing work to specialised companies or freelancers . |
| 40 | It saves time and effort on the part of the typist not to have to put commas at the end of each and every line of an address and full stops at the end of an address and after the date . |