Example sentences of "[verb] i [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's kind of you all to spare me the time . ’ |
| 2 | People often asked me the time just to hear my voice so they could proclaim my gender to their friends . |
| 3 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 4 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 5 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 6 | and ran to meet me every time I sang |
| 7 | Courier had never beaten the German in five previous meetings , never looked like doing so yesterday and said : ‘ He just beats me every time we play . |
| 8 | How about Phil Hilborne giving us mere mortals some tips on the twiddly bits in Jimi 's version of Like A Rolling Stone ; it loses me every time . |
| 9 | Gannets amaze and impress me every time I see them . |
| 10 | Not long ago he was on the phone to me moaning about Paul saying , he wo n't give me the time of day . |
| 11 | If I gave an interview I was the greatest guy in the world but if I said ‘ no , I want some time to myself ’ , they would n't give me the time of day . |
| 12 | Give me the time of your flight and I will arrange everything else . ’ |
| 13 | Sit down and give me the time I need to explain everything to you ? ’ |
| 14 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 15 | A young man of shaven pate , E-X-P-L-O-I-T-E-D tattooed on his forehead , approaches me brandishing a splashing can of Carlsberg Special Brew and asking me the time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd make sure he saw me every time before he went out the door . |
| 17 | Ask me the time I was up at ? |
| 18 | But the CO vetoes me every time . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Could you tell me the time please ? ’ |
| 20 | I can imagine a lot of beautiful things that , among their functions , will not tell me the time . |
| 21 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 22 | Consider , for example : ( I ) A : Can you tell me the time ? |
| 23 | Hence : ( 27 ) Pass the salt +> pass the salt now Or reconsider example ( i ) repeated here : ( 28 ) A : Can you tell me the time ? |
| 24 | I firmly told him that if he ever came near me again , I would fight back for all I was worth and , even if he managed to beat me every time , sooner or later I would get lucky and hurt him . |
| 25 | The cause is complete now , I need no more to show me the time is on me . |
| 26 | And you beat me every time , do n't you , you and all the people like you , Kegan ? |
| 27 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 28 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |