Example sentences of "the time [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of political ‘ discourse ’ has become painfully familiar in the years since then , but it was sufficiently new at the time to mislead many as to the true target of the strictures . |
| 2 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 3 | No , I took it home , I I was sort of leaving that to you you know , as you say , as you 've just mentioned now that , but no , I thought when you first of you said have n't got the time to put these all the layers of on , you know and |
| 4 | Grierson , in fact , lived a singularly carefree and untroubled existence but Talbot thought it was hardly the time to point this out to him . |
| 5 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 6 | I ca n't say I blame them — for many of us walking is about getting away from the crowds , and summer in the Lakes is not quite the time to do that . |
| 7 | I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is |
| 8 | The opportunity and the time to just talk to some kids and sound them out … or y' know , listen to what they 've got to say — have the time to do that . |
| 9 | And we just had n't the time to do both . |
| 10 | Mr Foggerty was agreeably surprised , but when Nutty reminded him of the standard required , he relapsed into grim gloom and stood on the side of the bath in his white T-shirt and jeans looking at his watch and saying , ‘ I ca n't spare the time to do this three nights a week for the next year , which is what is required . |
| 11 | A problem was that they did not have the time to do this ; cells were being charged up and time was running out , every spare moment being needed for preparing and measuring active cells . |
| 12 | It 's the the the time to do another one is when you think , Oh yeah there 's no problem here I 've definitely got this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She did n't hurry , using the time to do some serious thinking . |
| 15 | In our last meeting John the need to do a little thing that would the district but I felt that because of the time pushing that wha , what 's his name has said about the erm the River |
| 16 | People of the time called these farming tenancies " tenancies at will " , as do today 's historians . |
| 17 | Alluding to the multiple crises of inter-ethnic and nationalist strife , collapsing Communist Party support , economic chaos and a greatly increasing incidence of crime , he asserted : " Today is the time to decide all these questions . |
| 18 | Then now is the time to return any stray objects to the Catering Department , no questions asked . |
| 19 | Looking nervously over his shoulder in case the priest should hear , he scratched his head and rolled his eyes , all the time muttering that terrible word . |
| 20 | Hopefully , by the time read this , Silver Salmon will be well on the way towards completion of the major engine overhaul she has been longing for ever since our return from Denmark . |
| 21 | But companies that are willing to take the time to lay this solid foundation will gain the edge in the long run . |
| 22 | This is not the time to press this Bill , even if there were merits in it , considering the climate in Europe . |
| 23 | But you see I was thrown from one teacher all the time Miss all the time |
| 24 | It was built in 1874 at the expense of Lord Hotham , who at the time owned much of the parish . |
| 25 | That nearly a quarter of the time observed these clients had no staff present is surprising and should cause managers to re-examine ward organization and staff morale . |
| 26 | He was far from being a recluse , however , for in 1842 he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , which at the time had many eminent members . |
| 27 | Indeed I wonder whether they will have the time to perform all the many tasks taken on by police authority members , including lay-visiting of police cells attending national committees on a number of subjects or local consultative bodies , there 's a whole list of duties and responsibilities which members of police authorities undertake . |
| 28 | as if we would never have the time to say all the things we needed to say to each other . |
| 29 | Visiting your Aunty is exactly the time to crack some wicked gags about the rest of the family . |
| 30 | One could either argue that the lack of action required by the subject at the time prevented any memories from being encoded , or that the lack of aspects of the situation which were specific to that particular drive made it extremely difficult to actually retrieve a memory for it . |