Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally we heat it first and add biscuit so that the dogs have a warm , mixed meal , but tonight Odd-Knut is considering giving it to them frozen to save time . |
| 2 | With only two days to see Paris no-one wants to waste time in car and boat . |
| 3 | Her philosophy is clear : ‘ I hate wasting time . |
| 4 | Nor did I need to buy time for anybody . |
| 5 | I want Marking Time and that three-year-old filly of yours to run at Kempton on Saturday . |
| 6 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 7 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 8 | If I 'd had time to think I do n't know how I would have felt . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I 'd had time to make that tea , ’ Mrs Bennet said . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I 'd had time to read what Canon Wheeler had written on Jefferson all the same . |
| 11 | I said the first thing that came into my mind , but once I 'd had time to think everything through I realised what a mistake I 'd made . |
| 12 | If I 'd had time to think , I would have used my bat , but when I saw the ball , it was just about to start its downward path . |
| 13 | And I would have got it together if I 'd had time had gone out to work instead of for days on end being unemployed and sitting and telling me about Karen . |
| 14 | But often I hated spending time with them . |
| 15 | When I went to the DHSS I vowed to make time for a serious investigation into company pensions . |
| 16 | For me , a new and very delightful phase of life began , for I began to spend time with mothers of young children again . |
| 17 | I like having time to myself , and being an individual . |
| 18 | I remember spending time with her in the summer at her home . |
| 19 | I told him I wanted to go on to work afterwards , nut really I needed thinking time to try and figure him out . |
| 20 | ‘ I try to make time , Chrissy , I really do , but there 's never enough . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I try to make time . |
| 22 | ‘ I love stocking time ! ’ said Anna happily . |
| 23 | Another said : ‘ I love spending time with you . |
| 24 | I begin , as I did last time , with brief but important references to one of the matters that comes within my sphere of responsibility — parliamentary reform . |
| 25 | ‘ He thinks I wo n't remember my lines , ’ thought Gabriel , ‘ or that I 'll rush them like I did last time . |
| 26 | I 'll do what I did last time . |
| 27 | if I do well in the exam as I did last time round , yeah |
| 28 | For the purposes of completing this project and covering some grand skylines in Snowdonia , the Lakes and Scotland — I had to take time out from my more usual pastime to actually walk those mountain crests . |
| 29 | I had to take time off work , which did n't go down too well with the furniture store which employed me , and I was promptly given the sack . |
| 30 | He 'd shot the question at me so unexpectedly I had to have time to recover . |