Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the time " in BNC.

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1 kilometres per hour to work out the time it takes we do four thousand divided by three er eight hundred and fifty .
2 A contract was then issued to Social and Community Planning Research to carry out the Time Budget Survey and to deposit the data in the ESRC Data Archive for general use .
3 That and the odd bit of gardening takes up the time . ’
4 at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’
5 Was it used to say keep keep saying buy up the time buy up the time ?
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