Example sentences of "pass the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had forgotten to bring anything to read with me , so I passed the time by staring thoughtfully at the emptiness around me , sipping a glass of water and making up Scandinavian riddles — |
| 2 | Mcduff passed the time writing letters . |
| 3 | ‘ It passed the time , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 4 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 5 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 6 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 7 | It passed the time . |
| 8 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
| 9 | They passed the time chatting as they knitted or mended . |
| 10 | The rest of the staff passed the time each in his own way . |
| 11 | It was time for a film , a film I had watched before , however I did not mind as it passed the time . |
| 12 | It passed the time . |
| 13 | He passed the time of day with Two Coats the tramp . |
| 14 | Towards the end of field-work a constable newly transferred to the Neighbourhood Unit from one of the sections expressed his difficulties in adjusting to the new round of duties , stating that it was more difficult to pass the time because nothing seemed to happen ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 16 ) : establishing informal contact with the public was not yet itself seen as doing police work and boredom was unappealing . |
| 15 | It is a real pleasure to see these young lady constables and to pass the time of day with them . ’ |
| 16 | Sequestered that weekend in sealed hotel rooms , without television , the jurors themselves could not enjoy it ; but the trial judge comforted the prosecutor , who was growing anxious about the delay , with the thought that he could watch it if he wanted , to pass the time . |
| 17 | I decide he is insane but harmless , and it 's only someone to pass the time with after all . |
| 18 | I should hate anyone to think that I am , ’ she said , looking around her at us all and smiling again , ‘ that I am in the business of catering exclusively for prostitutes , tarts working girls , slags bitches , cunts , whores , studs , pimps , rent boys , butches , nellies , queens , masseurs , escorts , one-night stands , ex-models , ex-policemen , ex-Armed Forces , ex-boxers , security guards , tennis instructors , so-called businessmen , tourists and those poor unfortunates who simply come here to pass the time and meanwhile do some shopping ; oh , no , let it never be said ! |
| 19 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 20 | That is except Ben Wyvis , where the deer lie around playing cards to pass the time . |
| 21 | He jumps off waterfalls to pass the time of day . |
| 22 | The reason why people prolong the information loop is because it is a relatively ‘ safe ’ way to pass the time . |
| 23 | The reason why people often prolong the informing loop is because it is a relatively ‘ safe ’ way to pass the time . |
| 24 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 25 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ At any rate it will help to pass the time . ’ |
| 27 | To pass the time , they told Verdeţ what his fate would be if the government resorted to violence to suppress the strike or to try and rescue them . |
| 28 | She knew that Maggie was being polite , trawling for subjects to pass the time till she could safely move away . |
| 29 | We must account for every idle word , never talk with anyone or undertake any trifling employment merely to pass the time of day . |
| 30 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |