Example sentences of "[adv] the time [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these are designed to speed up your computer , especially the time it takes to get graphics up on-screen . |
| 2 | So the time I spend with them would be more profitably employed here in the surgery . ’ |
| 3 | Also to fill in the time she used Allen 's bow . |
| 4 | Yeah , the only the time he 'd been paid |
| 5 | And being a conniving little toady with an eye for the main chance , he proclaimed that the second should equal exactly the time it took to say ‘ praise Caesar ’ . |
| 6 | not the time we did n't , we have n't got the |
| 7 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
| 8 | I was however able to amuse myself by annoying the stewardesses by buzzing them every five to ten minutes asking for a drink , hence the time I spent in the toilet . |
| 9 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 10 | Commuting hassles ate up the time it took to re-stock one-off designs . |
| 11 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 12 | Build up the time you spend in the sun slowly — start with 10 minutes and increase gradually . |
| 13 | Perhaps nearer the time you could send details of the weekend course plus the costing for it . |
| 14 | I remembered also the time we finally accepted that British Council invitation and went to give a poetry reading in Madrid . |
| 15 | Linley had called his publisher and asked the name of the restaurant where they had lunched and also the time they had left . |
| 16 | kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just about the time yer was gettin' married . |
| 18 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 19 | Just about the time they had seen the signpost , the rain had started in earnest . |
| 20 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 21 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 22 | Just about the time you 've admitted taking two hundred stolen notes from Jack 's wife . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Last Saturday night , just about the time you were with his wife at that party in Fulham . |
| 24 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 25 | Now the time which erm i is scheduled for around about half a day each . |
| 26 | If the intervals are not regular but are simply the time it takes the operator to change the subject and are not perceptible , it becomes stop-motion ( or single frame ) animation proper — the movement is created , but not actually recorded . |
| 27 | Not even the time he was dunked head first in a tub of dubious liquid , and brought up gasping for breath : ‘ Make him sing God Save the Queen ! ’ they shouted . |
| 28 | This was around the time he first started seeing me as more than just an employee . |
| 29 | The man who 'd turned up the sexual voltage after their night out , only to be found embracing his secretary at precisely the time they 'd agreed to meet today … |
| 30 | Financed to the tune of FFr5 million by the giant British chemical firm ICI , which also paid FFr2 million towards the Salle des Fetes exhibition and a special laser-lit dinner for 1,000 under the Louvre pyramid , restoration of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ took two and a half years — almost twice the time it took the thirty-four year-old , Verona-born artist and his brother Benedetto to paint Christ 's first miracle for the refectory of the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice in 1562–63 . |