Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done nothing but read thrillers since the exams , apart from watching videos and playing patience to kill time . |
| 2 | In the case of income tax , any change involves time consuming revisions to PAYE codings . |
| 3 | However , unlike online searching , there is no charge for computer connect time . |
| 4 | After that the narrative has time only for Jacob . |
| 5 | The skin needs time to settle down after these treatments in order to absorb the essential oils more efficiently . |
| 6 | Particularly in the sonnets where the Poet confronts time and age , we find the affirmation that his verse will perpetuate the Friend 's memory to eternity , and it follows — as history has indeed shown — that his verse itself , and the poet who wrote it , are also guaranteed immortality . |
| 7 | Invalid Repeat Time specified in configuration file |
| 8 | Note : If you lower the pitch attitude too rapidly — before the speed has time to increase — then you will lose height since the lower speeds do not produce enough lift to maintain height with the wings at the lower angle of attack in the normal cruise level flight attitude . |
| 9 | Context is relied on much more often than in English or Bali to establish time reference . |
| 10 | Peer of the prison cell has time on his hands |
| 11 | The problem of criticising the work in exhibiting societies ' shows is how little space is made available in newspapers for its coverage ; the critic has time to mention a painter or a sculptor , make a brief observation , and then passes on . |
| 12 | Until now this final result involved time and effort on the part of the host . |
| 13 | ‘ The training pamphlet says time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted . ’ |
| 14 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |
| 15 | Even with money and will , a uranium-enrichment programme takes time to build , and might easily be detected by others . |
| 16 | Making a friend out of an enemy takes time — and love , do n't forget . |
| 17 | After an opening sample of Bob Hoskins from The Long Good Friday , ‘ Killing Season ’ sees Gunshot calling time on their fellow UK crews . |
| 18 | Study takes time and the best way to use it is to set yourself a programme . |
| 19 | Do n't expect any instant changes , as releasing muscular tension takes time . |
| 20 | To re-educate your critic takes time . |
| 21 | Adjustment of the two axes , even by radio control , in the air will not guarantee precision unless the flyer takes time to consider the camera angles . |
| 22 | Strong friendship takes time to build . |
| 23 | Friendship takes time . |
| 24 | Building up trust and friendship takes time but for hundreds makes Life Chance a lifeline . |
| 25 | It is n't that God delays his guidance and message , but that our perception takes time to put it into words . |
| 26 | It is quite pointless for critics of evolutionary thinking to waste time and space on a denigration of the hunches of earlier phases of an evolutionary inquiry when neither contemporary sources of information nor current developments in selection theory had arisen . |
| 27 | Frantic Bradford took to diving in the box looking for penalties , but Quakers held on , and there was even the unaccustomed spectacle of possession football to waste time in the dying minutes with a chorus of ‘ staying up ’ from the travelling fans in the background . |
| 28 | Grief takes time |
| 29 | Installation time is largely dependant on how much disk space the files you have already take up , since what 's already there is squeezed to make room for the extra drive , and squeezing takes time . |
| 30 | It is always good practice to synchronise times with suppliers ' delivery schedules thus minimising time between order and delivery which also minimises stock holding requirement . |