Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most recent research suggests that children who were breast fed have higher intelligence than those bottle-fed from birth , after allowing for the extra time breast-feeding mothers might spend with their babies or extra effort they might put into mothering . |
| 2 | Lisa had sighed and squeezed her friend 's arm , reflecting for the hundred-millionth time just what an enormous debt she owed Josey . |
| 3 | Some couples feel they enjoy intercourse more after abstaining during the fertile time . |
| 4 | Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time , demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit . |
| 5 | It is important to realize then that our symptoms , produced in response to stress , are not solely based upon the stress occurring at the given time , but upon all the stress accumulated in our stress glass over time . |
| 6 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 7 | In many cases , following the advice , particularly with regard to sleep , will initially be against the ‘ natural ’ dictates of the body clock , but , as we have explained , obeying the body clock in this case will only prolong the difficulties in living with the new time zone . |
| 8 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 9 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 10 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 11 | Those behind the Premier League shudder at the prospect of them heading for the big time . |
| 12 | Then nearly five more , waiting for the right time — God 's time to come out . |
| 13 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 14 | As a special mark of favour , Rainbow has brought Naomi to see the acting debut of a lesbian country-and-western heart-throb who 's branching out and sidling towards the big time . |
| 15 | They left the home between 4 pm and 5 pm and returned in the early hours of the morning , often coinciding with the feeding time for a young baby . |
| 16 | updating report , Chairman , I 've these past , the contract for the on-site services has now been let by , by the County Council 's private ent department , they 're actually going in the present time . |
| 17 | This ensure that there is something going on the whole time for both the spectator and the participator . |
| 18 | There was no evidence that Berowne had started his own meal — that in itself might be of some help in deciding on the approximate time of death — but he had apparently either cajoled Harry into the church with the promise of a meal or , more likely , had supplied an obvious and immediate need before he was ready for his own share of the supper . |
| 19 | In evaluating credit scoring at the present time , we had to consider three aspects : |
| 20 | We may be better off with health care contracts if money follows the patient as the government er intends it to do , but we just do n't know and that 's what we 're investigating at the present time . |
| 21 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 22 | Yeah , yeah six minutes past the hour so there , yeah , so they kept giving you doubts , now if you 're getting on this train make sure you get out at Lemington , so at about twenty past twelve , the twelve six went out from platform eleven , why , cos that will upset everything then , by , few of the trains kept coming round , then they said were very sorry but the Shrewsbury train will come in at platform ten that 's where we 're all waiting , so the ready train be outside somewhere , so , that came in just as the , the twelve , six went out about twenty past twelve these in and this girl got up so we said do n't get on this , you 'll never get to Birmingham you get on here , wait until we get on we said , cos they changed the train , oh she was getting all worked up , she come from Middlesborough , well I said well , well , anyway , we said no , there , there 's no trains for university no , nobody will be going at the right time will they ? |
| 23 | Poor seed-beds , dry conditions and spraying at the wrong time or the wrong rate could all explain the appearance of the yield-sapping weed . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like to know how much elation black leadership feels for this occasion , if any , of murder by mob , murder by trial , murder by jury , ’ Reed stated , his voice rising for the only time . |
| 25 | Cos I 'm , I 'm getting desperate cos it 's getting near the actual time . |
| 26 | Take That have n't had an easy time of it breaking into the big time . |
| 27 | The running time is twenty six minutes , we might as well get that right , we had er , er several people commenting on the running time of the other video , but er people had different of estimates , anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes . |
| 28 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 29 | Those not teaching at the present time are welcome to attend on a daily basis at £2 per session . |
| 30 | I put out my tongue and Frankie did likewise , but before we had got out she said , ‘ You can tell your mother and father that I shall be calling at the usual time on Saturday . |