Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 2 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 3 | I 'm thankful you 'll stay the extra time . ’ |
| 4 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 5 | And he 's also managed to sneak in some live music from Mary Chapin Carpenter , who 's been touring Scotland this week and is about to hit the big time . |
| 6 | I am learning all the time and I feel I am ready to hit the big time . ’ |
| 7 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 8 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 9 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 10 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 11 | Given the remaining time left open for consultations within the professions and the time needed to enact rule changes , the requirement is unlikely to reach the statute books before 1990 . |
| 12 | It is truly remarkable that , given the scant time for leisure , a fine appreciation of music and literature existed in certain isolated pockets of Baldersdale which Hannah was privileged to enjoy . |
| 13 | Given the enormous time , more than five minutes , it takes for each page this is very useful otherwise you might conclude that the whole machine has hung . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it is time we discussed the rules that will govern the unfortunate time we spend together until I return you to Milano tomorrow . ’ |
| 15 | no , so we did n't have an invite I know , I mean normally I 'm taken every year you know , there , to see the old time musical which is great and I look forward to that but cos I did n't get , get there and I love going to Leah Manning as I say we have dancing there on a Wednesday afternoon it 's great , I enjoy it ever so much and I meet all my friends there that I have n't seen for years , you know , that I used to go to clubs with and they 've all arrived there now you know it 's great to see them , I thoroughly enjoy it . |
| 16 | ‘ I think a real friend is someone you do n't have to see the whole time . |
| 17 | If too many are undertaken the average time to completion will be unacceptably long . |
| 18 | Sponsors and guests were invited to estimate the exact time of the flight of the Haggis from the Sandford Hotel , Fife to The Savoy . |
| 19 | Building reusable code can take more time initially , so it has to make good business sense to invest the extra time on a particular object . |
| 20 | The command TIME displays the current time on the screen and waits for you to enter the new time . |
| 21 | Once a depth of 1.5 metres is exceeded , the Solution enters into dive mode and displays the no-decompression time available , current depth , elapsed dive time and water temperature . |
| 22 | ‘ I was fiercely aroused the whole time we were talking . |
| 23 | They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’ |
| 24 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 25 | Course checked the whole time by the admiralty . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I thought we might need the extra time to help consolidate our position . |
| 28 | The code contains the scheduled time of the start of the programme , plus day of the month . |
| 29 | To this must be added the extra time and space demanded in main storage for relatively complex blocking — deblocking routines . |
| 30 | Health chiefs say the waiting time is down to 10 weeks . |