Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done by transferring the membrane to mixtures progressively richer in the solvent , allowing them time to equilibrate with the mixture , then transferring again until pure solvent is reached . |
| 2 | ‘ Which has given me time to realise that the way I 've outlined is the way it has to be . |
| 3 | It has given me time to sort out my priorities , ’ said Bishop Daly ( 59 ) . |
| 4 | Ever since I was able to go into Porteneil alone and check things up in the library my father has had to be pretty straight with me , but when I was younger he used to fool me time after time , answering my honest if naive questions with utter rubbish . |
| 5 | A programme does not have to be conventionally ‘ nine to five , structured but participants are more likely to accommodate themselves to unusual arrangements if you 've given them time for themselves . |
| 6 | Old people are no fools , and can easily be hurt ; so however many things you have on your mind to be done when you get home , never leave them feeling that you have given them time that you have grudgingly spared . |
| 7 | I 'd given them time to look for someone to replace me permanently . |
| 8 | Then I got my time and felt even better — the time was more important to me than the medal . |
| 9 | I divided my time between my hundreds of pet animals at home and the wild animals in the Wiltshire countryside . |
| 10 | I divided my time between Herbert 's and his father 's home . |
| 11 | However , I was wasting my time — my gaze slid across the surface of the pages like marbles on a shiny table-top . |
| 12 | What the hell are you doing anyway , cluttering up my office , wasting my time ? |
| 13 | One girl spent the whole afternoon talking to me about her family 's obsession with beauty , how she had always been praised and noticed for being pretty and not much else , and then , just at the end , spoke guiltily of ‘ wasting my time ’ with a subject so unimportant . |
| 14 | Then why are you wasting my time ? ’ |
| 15 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 16 | However , thought she , it would be right to take the children , which I did — thus proving , not for the first the last time , I 'd be wasting my time applying for the Mensa test . |
| 17 | The first thing Maxine said to me when she entered my consulting room was that she hoped she was not wasting my time and she was sorry she was being so stupid . |
| 18 | ‘ If you do n't want to see what it 's like I sha n't bother wasting my time . ’ |
| 19 | Senior partner in law firm , to young graduate on his first interview ( sub-text : ‘ I really do n't want to be here , wasting my time talking to you ’ ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 21 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 22 | Why are you wasting my time ? ’ |
| 23 | As a result , I was often wasting my time during our first few flying sessions . |
| 24 | She was , in her terms , ‘ thrown out for wasting my time ’ . |
| 25 | Right , so I 'm not wasting my time |
| 26 | I would be wasting my time , unless some theory had been proposed rendering the weight of earlobes important , such as a theory connecting the size of earlobes with the incidence of cancer in some way . |
| 27 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 28 | ‘ Am I wasting my time ? ’ |
| 29 | Johnny was standing with his back to her , gazing blankly out of the window , but at her last words , he wheeled round and said sarcastically : ‘ Well , I was wasting my time , was n't I ? |
| 30 | I 've tried to convert him , but I 'm wasting my time . |