Example sentences of "[pron] a [noun sg] of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , sensibly , had allowed himself a lot of time . |
| 2 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 3 | So if you 're looking for something , bit of a pain having to wade through half a dozen pages , if you can go to the index and then jump directly to the relevant page , and then save you a bit of time . |
| 4 | so it 'll give you a bit of time to do your painting now wo n't it ? |
| 5 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 6 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |
| 7 | It 's more comfortable to carry a full can in each hand and using two will save you a lot of time and effort . |
| 8 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 9 | Does n't give you a lot of time for |
| 10 | It may save you a lot of time a lot bother a lot of marks . |
| 11 | Well that 's ten multiplied by itself a lot of times . |
| 12 | One gets the impression that accountants are always foolish or dishonest and accountancy itself a waste of time . |
| 13 | Just give me a bit of time and if it works out — , |
| 14 | ‘ Give me a bit of time , Dad . ’ |
| 15 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 16 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 17 | But give me a bit of time and I 'm sure I can find some cogent motive to pin on him . ’ |
| 18 | Give me a bit of time to get settled . |
| 19 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 20 | Copper had trodden on me a couple of times in the stable , very uncharacteristically , and he also ran into a friend of mine while shying at something , as if she was n't there . |
| 21 | She caught me a couple of times , did that beastie . |
| 22 | ‘ And he telephoned me a couple of times that week from the Institute . ’ |
| 23 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 24 | She has written to me a couple of times and seems to have managed to keep everyone busy in my absence . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 26 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 27 | Oh but it 's so wound it 's taking me a lot of time outside . |
| 28 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 29 | Do n't think I 've ever seen the , oh , yo , yo the first one a couple of times . |
| 30 | ‘ Just give him a bit of time . |