Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 2 | For all these people the first Sunday of Lent marked the time when Bishop Brewer , in the name of the Church , called them to journey with the Church towards Easter when they will be baptised , or received into full communion with the Church . |
| 3 | The acceleration of transit shortens the time available for the bacteria to split the azo-bond . |
| 4 | Come about midnight put the time plan . |
| 5 | Maggie Wheeler makes her guests feel entirely at home and certainly it is very easy to relax in this ‘ no rules ’ atmosphere , where you can enjoy meeting the other guests around the kitchen table in an informal atmosphere with Maggie taking the time to help you plan your itinerary . |
| 6 | A journalist in Yorkshire recounts the time he bumped into Selina and her father at York Station . |
| 7 | Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , said : ‘ I kept on writing poetry while I was in hospital to fill the time and keep my spirits up . ’ |
| 8 | It allows matters of lesser importance to be decided without troubling the whole Cabinet ; and major issues to be clarified in order to save the time of the Cabinet . |
| 9 | The run used to be three miles but I added a quarter mile spur in order to use the time to best advantage . |
| 10 | The TRACE II designers had to duplicate the entire knowledge network over and over in order to represent the time course of speech processing . |
| 11 | In order to justify the time spent on producing them , the copies should be consistently clear and legible . |
| 12 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 13 | In a major survey of special needs provision in middle and secondary schools , Clunies-Ross and Wimhurst ( 1983 ) showed that children with special needs were most often withdrawn from science and modern languages in order to find the time to give them extra help with literacy . |
| 14 | If anyone who went to the game on Sat has the time and inclination to write a report on it , I for one would be glad to read it . |
| 15 | I must say that I do not at present find the time at all tedious and I may say scarcely monotonous . |
| 16 | At turnoff estimate the time taken for the phase current to fall to zero and the proportion of the stored inductive energy returned to the supply . |
| 17 | Fishermen have sailed along the Thames in convoy to Westminster to protest at plans to cut the time they can spend at sea . |
| 18 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
| 19 | The hospital services used by patients includes the time spent in the operating theatre ; medical , nursing and hotel services provided on the ward , services provided in out patient checks and injection endoscopy procedures , units of blood , and prescribed drugs . |