Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | EOG changes themselves are to the same order as EEG changes — up to 150 microvolts , and they are typically recorded using the same time constants and level of amplification as the EEG channel . |
| 2 | The more people there are helping the less time it takes . |
| 3 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 4 | The timescale , , for the instability of the boundary layer to occur is given by the time taken for conduction to thicken the local boundary layer to this mean thickness The two different regimes can be separated by equating the settling time , /v S to the convective boundary-layer timescale , . |
| 5 | I I found it when I was driving the last time . |
| 6 | They were there checking the whole time . |
| 7 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
| 8 | He is playing , passing the tedious time while there 's virtually no fighting and very little manoeuvring and while he wants none , but is uneasy being still . |
| 9 | Remembering the first time I 'd done the climb , back in 1964 , an echo of precise-edged delicacy tingled in my mind . |
| 10 | Harbury asked , remembering the previous time he had visited the flat when Oliver had encouraged him to stay and Rain had encouraged him to go . |
| 11 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 12 | She was smiling , remembering the last time she and Jasper had gone out together . |
| 13 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 14 | When she did not come , he became angry , remembering the last time she had failed to arrive , on her wedding day . |
| 15 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 16 | Fran picked up her bag and went downstairs , remembering the last time she 'd got ready to go out with Luke . |
| 17 | ‘ I really do n't think that 's necessary , ’ Rory began firmly , remembering the last time he had held her in his arms on the dance floor . |
| 18 | Was he too remembering the last time they had decided to keep each other warm ? |
| 19 | Some means of escaping the waiting time of boredom and temporary unemployment . |
| 20 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 21 | I really do n't I think he 's acting the whole time , I do n't think he knows he 's doing it . |
| 22 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 23 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 24 | It was a bit perplexing the first time I heard the chant though , because of the other associations that could be drawn from it ! |
| 25 | Patients were asked to empty their bladder before going to bed , noting the precise time and discarding the urine . |
| 26 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 27 | This method of deciding the right time to sow was recommended by Fitzherbert , the sixteenth-century writer on agriculture : ‘ go upon the land that is plowed and if it synge or crye or make any noise under they fete , then it is to wet to sowe . |
| 28 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 29 | The Professional Aviation Jet Prop DC-3 from the Republic of South Africa ( marking the first time the RSA has ever displayed an aircraft at Farnborough ) employs the Schafer/Aero Modifications International design ( first flown in the US in August 1986 ) and they have been ‘ building ’ examples since 1991 . |
| 30 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |