Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 2 | Squeeze his sides and Mickey opens his mouth and talks the time . |
| 3 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have to hand it to you , ’ he said grimly , ‘ you lose one lover and waste no time in replacing him . |
| 5 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 6 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 7 | You were to kill him in the alleyway and capture the Time Sprout . |
| 8 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 9 | Genesis , Tracey 's distinctly secular celebration of the Creation , has been reissued as a CD , with two of the composer 's big-band classics ( Afro-Charlie and Murdering The Time ) added for good measure . |
| 10 | Erm , he organised the coordinating , after a while she did actually stop them after five minutes and explain the time situation , er , the final objective were the constraints . |
| 11 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 12 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 13 | If you like cooking and have the time to experiment , there is a recipe section on pages 133–150 , which you might like to try , and in the reading list you will find a selection of recipe books that you might like to dip into . |
| 14 | Further , the Prime Minister brought forward the deadline for nominations to the leadership contest to 15 November in order to force the hand of any challenger and to reduce the time available to mount an effective campaign . |
| 15 | That would take a good hour and kill the time . |
| 16 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 17 | On his return home he would eat a large English breakfast and , before starting on his work , would play a hand or two of patience and begin The Times crossword . |
| 18 | He supported the Japanese at the time of the Russo-Japanese war and represented The Times at the Portsmouth peace conference in 1905 . |
| 19 | If you ca n't easily remember this , just close your eyes for a moment and recall a time when you felt really well . |
| 20 | They may have to act on the spur of the moment and have no time to reflect and be bound , therefore , to arrest to prevent escape ; but where there is no danger of the person who has ex hypothesi aroused their suspicion that he probably is an ‘ offender ’ attempting to escape , they should make all presently practicable enquiries from persons present or immediately accessible who are likely to be able to answer their enquiries forthwith . |
| 21 | Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed . |
| 22 | Between 1750 and 1755 he entered poems five times for the annual Seatonian prize at Cambridge and won every time . |
| 23 | It requires employers to meet the costs and plan the time for courses . |
| 24 | From them and from a local solicitor , Thomas Watson Brown , he learned much about trade union administration and the drafting of trade union rules ; they also , he claimed , fed his ambition to lead a national seamen 's union , initially at the cost of some domestic disharmony , his wife and his mother-in-law accusing him of neglecting his own restaurant business and resenting the time he spent with his own visitors , particularly " old long-faced Brown " the lawyer . |
| 25 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 26 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 27 | It 's precious meeting the odd soul on a high top and passing the time of day with them , knowing that no matter who or what they are , you share the same interests in wildlife , wilderness and solitude . |
| 28 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 29 | The alternative plan is to get away from road racing for a spell and use the time to do some track training , with the idea of running track races through the summer months . |
| 30 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |