Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] time and [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho .
2 Your potential supporter is both helped and encouraged to look on your organisation more favourably because someone took time and trouble over him .
3 I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb .
4 I ca n't promise that I 'll stay permanently , but I need time and peace to decide on my future .
5 The Defence Minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whose Labour Party forced last Friday 's inner cabinet vote on the Egyptian proposal , dismissed talk of a deadlock : ‘ I have time and patience and I am not pessimistic , ’ he said .
6 So those relics of past civilizations which defy time and weather become , in effect , visiting cards as well as trademarks , and provide the key to the spatial and temporal connections of various ‘ culture areas ’ , each identified by a particular assemblage of objects and cultural styles .
7 For this reason office duties are disliked and paperwork despised as ‘ dirtywork ’ ( Hughes , 1971:343 ff. ) which diverts time and energy from ‘ real ’ pollution control work , making one accountable for matters which have little to do with law enforcement .
8 The eight founder members are Viglen Ltd ; Granville , which includes Time and Colossus ; Dan Technology ; Kamco Computer Systems ; Evesham Micros Ltd ; Mesh ; Centerprise International Ltd ; and CIC Computers Ltd .
9 In that moment , the Word which touched time and history in Jesus Christ touches them again , and so the original Word itself is heard , leaping across the distances of time which are no barrier or hindrance to the running of the communication from eternity .
10 It was : ‘ If you want my will to be done , it requires you to actually do something ( which takes time and effort ) not just to sit back and expect it to happen ’ .
11 By bunging the end of the downpipe with the filter mat all the debris is filtered out of the water before it goes into the bucket or water butt , which saves time and energy trying to strain it out later .
12 Probably the most characteristic feature of Shito is the avoidance of unnecessary movements which waste time and energy .
13 He did n't realise that she needed time and space , privacy to sort out the tangle inside her head and make a considered decision about her future actions .
14 Her lover said she needed time and space to rethink her parameters .
15 Mr Stewart echoed the praise for all who gave time and money to the appeal , launched three years ago .
16 Until you have time and money to build a barn , a rick-yard may be the only alternative .
17 You notice time and time again that one of them keeps reading a newspaper instead of working .
18 In other words , Ginsberg and his followers were campaigning against the establishment , the Luce family who controlled Time and Life , school , parents , the police — anyone in authority just as , in Britain it was emanating from Liverpool , the Marquee and Carnaby Street .
19 Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years .
20 We believe this will encourage them to excel time and time again .
21 Such a development required a strong defence , and the point to which they referred time and time again was that ‘ modern conditions ’ made it imperative that education be structured into a coherent national system , with special attention being paid to working-class youth , not merely to trade classes for apprentices , but to the mass of young workers .
22 They give time and money to their faith and such giving often shames those of us who claim to be orthodox believers .
23 So why are they spending time and money trying to clear the name of a dead man 30 years on ?
24 They waste time and money when their sole interest is to secure the maximum publicity for their causes .
25 They prove time and time again the risks they are prepared to take .
26 ‘ No , and it needs time and discipline as well as motivation , ’ Belinda murmured , the instinctive empathy she had felt for Faye growing as she heard more of the painter 's story .
27 Thus , so the charge runs , he evacuated time and history , and in particular our present and future , of real theological significance .
28 He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions .
29 This is a very simple philosophy but , in my experience , I have seen it work time and time again .
30 It takes time and patience to get these quiet slow spoken people to talk ; they must be sure that one is not trying to make a fool of them or mocking them .
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