Example sentences of "[verb] the time " in BNC.
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31 | I was surprised she could spare the time in the middle of an election campaign and concluded it was genuinely urgent . |
32 | Eventually she would train them to produce the kinds of designs she favoured , but for the moment , until she had her first collection down on paper , quite frankly she could n't spare the time . |
33 | Just the way you once wished it could when you were regretting the good old days when a man could keep his unsuitable mistress hidden away , knowing she 'd be there waiting upon his pleasure , whenever he felt the urge and could spare the time to see her . |
34 | She could spare the time for France . |
35 | And of course that also meant she could n't possibly spare the time to do her usual singing spot in the club . |
36 | Alex and Fred could ( if they can spare the time ) advise the CPL staff on assessing each potential adoptee on their merit regardless of where they live . |
37 | ‘ The telephone never stops and I can hardly spare the time even to make myself a cup of tea . |
38 | Buddy , can you spare the time ? |
39 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
40 | As the traders often can not spare the time to come to the staff restaurant , they can place their breakfast and lunch orders in advance and CCG staff serve them at their desks . |
41 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
42 | Puts watch on table and records the time on a pad . ) |
43 | Next the program or event that you are trying to time occurs and then a very similar line records the time when it comes to and end . |
44 | A group of early printed books includes the Works of Cicero printed in 1569 , while even earlier is the tome of 1553 which records the time when Newcastel upon Tine annexed Gateside . |
45 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
46 | Mcduff passed the time writing letters . |
47 | ‘ It passed the time , ’ Nicholas said . |
48 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
49 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
50 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
51 | It passed the time . |
52 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
53 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
54 | The rest of the staff passed the time each in his own way . |
55 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
56 | It passed the time . |
57 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
58 | Once you shared the time . |
59 | We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud . |
60 | The Ellan Vannin Diaries have obligingly altered the time of their deliveries to a later hour in response to one or two complaints of sleep disturbance . |