Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cadfael had been awake and afield more than an hour by then , for want of a quiet mind , and had filled in the time by ranging along the bushy edges of his peasefields and the shore of the mill pond to gather the white blossoms of the blackthorn , just out of the bud and at their best for infusing , to make a gentle purge for the old men in the infirmary , who could no longer take the strenuous exercise that had formerly kept their bodies in good trim . |
| 2 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 3 | Build up the time you spend in the sun slowly — start with 10 minutes and increase gradually . |
| 4 | The next day he went back to the factory and found out the time of the funeral . |
| 5 | Knotting on the matching pareo , she made a mental note to telephone them as soon as she collected her wits enough to work out the time in the UK . |
| 6 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 7 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 8 | The approval by members at the June special meeting of a reformed scheme should , with luck , cut down the time that references to the JDS take to complete , as well as the cost of these expensive investigations . |
| 9 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 10 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 11 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 12 | It also has an ‘ enable tracer ’ which cuts down the time needed to run off a large number of copies from one disc . |
| 13 | It was the way he 'd got out the time Barry had locked him in the tractor-shed . |
| 14 | Not neurotic , that , just a way of parcelling out the time , and doing everything I need to . |
| 15 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll make up the time , I promise . ’ |
| 17 | Besides , he was sure we 'd quickly make up the time once we got out to sea . |
| 18 | Fill in the time and date in the spaces labelled{ Date } , { Time } respectively on the row labelled{ 1 . |
| 19 | fill in the time till they go |
| 20 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 21 | Also to fill in the time she used Allen 's bow . |
| 22 | She therefore advertised the garage as being for rent , and at the same time got herself a job as a secretary to an insurance broker , to fill in the time until Peter should be at home permanently or a family should arrive . |
| 23 | Chesarynth almost drank the wine just to fill in the time , but the thought of poison halted the crystal-stemmed goblet half-way to her mouth . |
| 24 | All that remained now was to fill in the time until she could ring her mother . |
| 25 | This is what you were saying about buying up the time , John in a way , is n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ In one week , ’ she said , reckoning up the time . |
| 27 | That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’ |
| 28 | I had no interest in charitable works , or in clubs devoted to flower-arranging , debating futile motions or even poetry-reading , seeing such activities as being designed to fill out the time of future ladies of leisure . |
| 29 | So long as you know how far it is to the line , and so long as someone is calling out the time to the start , you just need to judge your speed correctly . |
| 30 | And then you can think of I mean this is this is just sort it can be there to confuse you while you 're sorting out the time . |