Example sentences of "[verb] time [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 2 | She had n't got time for this . |
| 3 | Like the good storyteller he was , Titch allowed time for this to sink in before going on . |
| 4 | It takes time for this to develop and for people to recognise that they are partly responsible . |
| 5 | Our theological understanding is that our top priority should be to worship God and so we encourage the small groups to give time to this first . |
| 6 | So it is worth regularly spending time on this exercise . |
| 7 | Do they usually take time like this ? |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't have time for this . |
| 9 | ‘ I really do n't have time for this . ’ |
| 10 | I feel as badly as you do , but we do n't have time for this . |
| 11 | Were getting into an area which I think is a whole different programme and before this programme started I might tell you we were having a little er discussion amongst ourselves whether or not er zoo 's were good for animals and I suppose there is a discussion about whether prisons are inevitably going to be degrading because of , because of what er , what , what a prison represents which is a curtailment of freedom , but we do n't have time in this programme , so that 's another one for next year , can I ask you , we 've , we 've touched a lot of basis and it must be frustrating that we ca n't pursue er to the end some of the things we 've er , we 've picked on , but can I ask you a couple of final questions , as far as you know have you committed a crime ? , button one for yes and button two for no , as far as you know , I mean we have n't got time to go into what they might be so your perfectly free to be very honest and honestly reveals that three people are n't quite sur , oh yes there they are |
| 12 | But while the feud hots up , so does the trade , so it 's unlikely either landlord will call time on this bitter battle . |
| 13 | Thank you for taking time for this interview , well that 's a load of crap cos I did n't give time . |
| 14 | As a consequence , there is a reluctance to even devote thinking time to this subject . |
| 15 | The 10–90% rise time for this e.p.s.p. was 3.6ms . |
| 16 | And I think that 's a , that 's a key message which I , I do n't know what spends time on this , how in fact we always accord other people more consideration than we do ourselves usually . |
| 17 | The kind of determinism dominant in the book is exemplified in his discussion of tense : On the other hand it could be said that the English tense system offers speakers the choice of whether to see time in this way . |
| 18 | That 's all that we have time for this week . |
| 19 | ( Spend time over this exercise . |
| 20 | Carrying out preparatory investigations and interviews This is not always done , but some researchers , aware of the problems outlined in the discussion on forming hunches and hypotheses above , spend time at this early stage in conducting informal interviews with people in order to find out from them what the key issues are . |