Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 I 'm phoning to arrange a time
2 This can make editing a time consuming and confusing exercise when working with a large piece of music .
3 Neil , bring cup of tea in here and we 'll talk about it and I did n't really want to spare the time because you could imagine that I wanted to get ready to come away but I I made myself sit and really give him time
4 I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled .
5 IF you want to know the time , ask a policeman .
6 The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time .
7 How often do you really need to know the time to the exact minute ?
8 I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains .
9 The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time .
10 And yet she felt bound to warn , ‘ But , there has to come a time soon when you must let go of the past … or go to Richard and Beth with all that is in your heart . ’
11 The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care .
12 Allow a maximum of 30 minutes per question ( if it is a 6-in-3-hours paper ) , using your stop watch so that you do not need to remember the time you started .
13 The cuckoo can not lay its egg while the future foster-parent is in residence ; it has to pick a time when the parent bird has left the nest — and the eggs — so that it can perform its surreptitious substitution .
14 As expected , Tadpole Technology plc , the UK company that took itself off to Austin , Texas , and came up with the first notebook computer based on Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc RISC chip and Unix , has decided the time is right to bring its Sparcbook 1 back to Europe ( UX No 371 ) .
15 To take a simple example , the Social Science Data Archive at Essex has a fine run of survey data from Family Expenditure Survey and General Household Survey well suited to the needs of those who want to create a time series as a part of current social science analysis .
16 But this country , in its short and violent history , has had no time to develop a taste for such decadent indulgences .
17 Sam , about 16 months old , has had the time of his life with Peter .
18 Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door .
19 The new board changes appear to favour the Time side of the group .
20 For Julie Crew what should be a time of joy has become a time of pain and misery .
21 If you want to give the time … do n't unnecessarily expose yourself to danger
22 That now does useful work , powering a pneumatic grease gun , a tool that Mr Tomlinson says has halved the time it takes to grease up the Mengele forager each morning .
23 He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs .
24 ( J. R. N. Lazier , manuscript in preparation ) has updated the time series of ref. 3 of temperature on the density surface from which we have inferred salinity ( Fig. 2 a ) .
25 They have to be accelerated/automated and made readily available if we want to reduce the time needed to reach a solution to a problem .
26 A COMPUTER system introduced by Japan 's Ministry of Health has cut the time taken to match a kidney donor with the most suitable recipient from several hours to three minutes .
27 We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better .
28 Toshack has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the side , moving the West German midfielder Bernd Schuster to libero , Michel from the right flank to central midfield , and giving the striker Emilio Butragueno a slightly withdrawn role .
29 The Nottingham Forest manager has wasted no time in moving for Olympic keeper Brad Freidle after Mark Crossley cost his side two crucial survival points against Wimbledon on Sunday .
30 Graseby Anderson Inc , the Atlanta , Georgia arm of Graseby Plc , Cambridge has wasted no time in filing its proposed initial public offering ( CI No 2,129 ) , of up to 1.92m shares , an unspecified number to come from the Andersen Samplers BV and Graseby Overseas Holdings Ltd units of Graseby .
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