Example sentences of "[to-vb] the time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Both Pen and Ferdinando rushed in immediately the carriage drew up at the door and wonderful was the reunion ; then within the hour the kindest of notes came from Mrs Browning begging her to find the time and energy to visit whenever she was able . |
| 32 | To find the time of day , use a slip of white paper to blank out three of the discs . |
| 33 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 34 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 35 | R is difficult when you are at work all week , to find the time and it is not much fun spending your only free time cleaning . |
| 36 | ‘ Where I 'm supposed to find the time to prepare everything I do n't know ! |
| 37 | It is difficult within organisational constraints for social workers to find the time to do marital work and it is even harder to find time to do so for elderly couples . |
| 38 | So busy are international players that they are lucky if they are able to find the time even in summer to tie the knot . |
| 39 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 40 | ‘ How ’ , the teachers asked , ‘ are we to be trained and to find the time to do the job , without any extra resources ? ’ |
| 41 | One day , I do hope to find the time to make a positive contribution towards the Convocation . |
| 42 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 43 | This is accomplished by first differentiating the freewheeling current signal and then using a comparator to find the time instants at which there is 110 change of current . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | It sounds a lame excuse , I know , but I never seem to be able to find the time . |
| 46 | But dance has long been a popular option at Haughton where teacher Jenny Ruston says its hard to find the time to meet all the demand from boys and girls . |
| 47 | But you all may be thinking , that is all well and good , but where are we going to find the time , the support , and the resources to do this . |
| 48 | He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees . |
| 49 | Only that we would want all students to experience these things to the fullest , so that they all have varied and rich experiences in all these spheres , and that we make special efforts to provide the time and space for the students to explore and develop their abilities and inclinations to learn and develop personal qualities without being directed . |
| 50 | The major changes in other branches of archaeology , particularly prehistory , which resulted from the development of independent dating techniques , has stimulated a move away from the mere grouping of artefacts to represent ‘ cultures ’ using typologies , in part , to provide the time scale , with varying degrees of success . |
| 51 | David looked rather odd as she said that , but he left so quickly that she could not ask him anything about it and picked up her book to absorb the time until Annunziata brought in her supper . |
| 52 | ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station . |
| 53 | ’ For the Hebrew , to know the time was not a matter of knowing the date , it was a matter of knowing what kind of time it might be . |
| 54 | He worked out when he was born , wanted to know the time of day , when the worker would return and when he would see his wife again . |
| 55 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 56 | How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ? |
| 57 | IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman . |
| 58 | The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time . |
| 59 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 60 | It is a real pleasure to see these young lady constables and to pass the time of day with them . ’ |