Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one reason or another , either it is too long before the courts are available to try the cases , or the lawyers appear to require too much time to prepare the defence . |
| 2 | Do you honestly think your company 's so scintillating that I want to spend still more time in it ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Chief executives of international companies want to spend more personal time on stakeholder issues , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , you seem to spend singularly little time on your — um — aquatic investigation . ’ |
| 5 | So , if you find that too many of your shots come into the wobbly category , resolve to do better next time by concentrating on getting this basic technique right . |
| 6 | Sir Ranulph and his wife Ginny — the first woman ever to be awarded the Polar Medal — try to spend as much time as possible at their home on Exmoor , but even between expeditions , there is a lot of travelling to do . |
| 7 | I shall be writing the notes on my experiments , of course , and I intend to spend as much time as I can refuting Carslake 's idiotic principle . |
| 8 | We 've made pretty good time up to now . ’ |
| 9 | Because the mistakes have to be rectified and it puts us under even more pressure because you 've got even less time . |
| 10 | , late at night , , they 've got the boat , and the tape , they 're both out on tape and video , and basically you have to go back , as soon as the boat comes through docks the next person picks it up and goes , so you 've got very little time to pick up information , and all the time you ca n't go in , and the clock 's going , and the clock 's going and you switch , and they said it was , next to you , they said it such a |
| 11 | Alright , but you know , you 've got so little time , you know , fifteen minutes is very , very short period of time , so whatever you say |
| 12 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 13 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 14 | I 've spent too much time with you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The only reason we 've spent so much time making love is to stop me talking about business , ’ she complained with an unabashed grin . |
| 16 | You 've frittered away enough time for one day . " |
| 17 | ‘ We 've wasted so much time . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm snowed under with work and I 've taken too much time off to be with you . |
| 19 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 20 | Darling Mother , I have let too much time pass without writing , but I have n't forgotten you . |
| 21 | The couple were engaged earlier this month but have spent hardly any time together since then . |
| 22 | I have spent quite some time considering the best format for the book and , after much deliberation , have decided to set out in bold type the precedents clause by clause interspersed with my own comments , followed , once again in bold type , by my suggested amendments to the particular parts of the precedents , where those amendments are not readily identifiable from my comments in the text . |
| 23 | Most young drivers have spent very little time behind the wheel before they pass their test and in many cases , they 're the ones at fault when accidents happen . |
| 24 | I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results . |
| 25 | We can go down to Aquae Sulis for a bit of steaming an' that , you need to get away funny time of the moon coming up , know what I mean ? |
| 26 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |