Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Takeshita 's immediate aim is to show the Americans that he is as adept in international affairs as in domestic politics , and that they are wasting their time on a boy like Mr Kaifu . |
| 2 | KEVIN KEEGAN last night warned Premier League clubs they are wasting their time trying to buy his rising stars . |
| 3 | Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They feel they are wasting their time because their hard work is getting smashed up . |
| 5 | THE traders threatening to sue Darlington Council over the pedestrianisation of Skinnergate are wasting their time . |
| 6 | ‘ You are wasting your time . ’ |
| 7 | He refused to comment further and told waiting reporters : ‘ You are wasting your time . |
| 8 | He threw open a bedroom window at his farmhouse in Dummer , Hants , and yelled to waiting newsmen : ‘ You are wasting your time . |
| 9 | ‘ I still say you are wasting your time . |
| 10 | ‘ You are wasting your time , girl ! |
| 11 | about this you are wasting your time , er then hopefully you if you are having a problem to come and see me and I can tell you if it is a problem or whether it 's not , it 's not particularly a problem , so you know , come along and see me |
| 12 | ‘ I hate to keep repeating myself , but you really are wasting your time . |
| 13 | ‘ So you see , my dear , you really are wasting your time . |
| 14 | And if the vast preponderant mass of occult lore is finally seen as empty and meaningless , so is the book , in which case we are wasting our time . |
| 15 | In other words , so far as I am concerned , unless and until we are prepared to deal with this demonstrated cause of inflation and want to do so , we are wasting our time ; and as soon as we want to do so , there is no reason to suppose that there will be any problem or therefore any reason for an incomes policy as defined . |
| 16 | On that basis , we are wasting our time , thinking her absence will have been reported . ’ |
| 17 | In my own case , it is the knowledge that a Labour victory has the effect of a firework in a stagnant pool , in that it brings all the scum to the surface : not just the trade union ruffians , who have been biding their time , but the Left-wing teachers , the child abuse and anti-smoking fanatics , the Hunt Saboteurs , all the ugly underside of British life will suddenly have a powerful voice in the nation 's councils . |
| 18 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been biding my time waiting for this Ulster call , and was delighted when John Clarke gave me the nod , ’ he said . |
| 20 | So I 've been biding my time . |
| 21 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 22 | ‘ I am wasting my time with you . |
| 23 | With opinion polls showing Labour ahead of the Conservatives , many health service managers are biding their time , not prepared to press forward rapidly with changes which could soon be reversed and which in any case they are reluctant to endorse . |
| 24 | The earliest the matter can be raised again is in January when the new Congress returns , and although if the benefit is reintroduced it may well be retroactive to1 January , potential donors are biding their time for the moment . |
| 25 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 26 | She 'd been wasting her time . |
| 27 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 28 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 29 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |
| 30 | I feel very bitter about this , it seems as if I 've been wasting my time . ’ |