Example sentences of "time and [noun sg] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | the final item could include all the performers if there is time and opportunity to organise it — failing that play your trump card with a really stunning item to finish . |
| 2 | If the car was still moving , police could work out a safe time and location to intercept it . |
| 3 | Owner of a fabled art collection in California , which he was too busy ever to visit , his soon familiar face , like a bloodhound lugubriously scenting wasted pennies , was one symbol of the times : if you , too , struck oil you could be as rich and careworn as Getty and have as little time and capacity to enjoy it . |
| 4 | Just look at the table of comparative costs and hope that when you get to the station there 's a friendly British Rail man with time and patience to explain it all . |
| 5 | They were therefore leaving it exposed to the elements until it reached the point where ministers decided it was a waste of time and money to restore it . |
| 6 | But the overlap in time and content makes it most convenient for the two groups to be discussed together . |
| 7 | Stephanie unwound it like a cocoon , stroked and spread its spiky boughs , spent time and effort stabilising it in a bucket of earth with the weight from the kitchen scales . |
| 8 | Says Marcus Lyon : ‘ You are always going to get the lazy buyer who wants a barn conversion because they do n't want to take the time and trouble to do it themselves . ’ |
| 9 | The people that do this , spend a hell of a lot of time and energy doing it . |
| 10 | It is not entirely clear what its Darwinian purpose is , but it certainly must have one , for the beavers expend so much time and energy to build it . |
| 11 | But unless the staff concerned are enthusiastic about the project , fully understand it , and are thus prepared to give the time and energy to make it work team teaching will be doomed to failure . |
| 12 | It is illustrated in an English manuscript of the 13th century , was used in the time of Gerard , and later by Culpeper , and altogether was so well-known and commonly used medicinally , that it was thought " but lost time and labour to describe it " . |