Example sentences of "to tell the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 2 | Because it is inexpensive , burning incense-sticks to tell the time continued to be used down to the present century . |
| 3 | But items such as the ability to name four parts of a watch , to tell the time , to identify three coins , and follow verbal and written instructions in order to select the correct one of two tablet bottles , had more discriminatory power . |
| 4 | Bounderby claims to have learned to tell the time from studying its steeple clock ‘ under the direction of a drunken cripple , who was a convicted thief , and an incorrigible vagrant ’ , i.e. a typical denizen of the St Giles district , HT i 4 . |
| 5 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 6 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 7 | But for language learners to learn only the intricacies of the device without knowing how to put it to use is rather like learning about the delicate mechanisms of a clock without knowing how to tell the time . |
| 8 | If you 'd like your kids to learn how to tell the time , treat the younger members of the family to their own watch from the ‘ Flik Flak Teaching ’ range . |
| 9 | To explain a watch we need to realize both how its springs and wheels ( or , nowadays , microchips ) work and that its purpose is to tell the time . |
| 10 | He judged five minutes was long enough for that , a lifetime when you are five , and since he had just learned how to tell the time he watched the clock over her shoulder . |
| 11 | Be able to tell the time and understand times expressed in terms of 12- and 24-hour clocks . |
| 12 | Or the little portable sundials which shepherds used to carry up into the mountains to tell the time by ; or , a last reassuringly bucolic reminder that Bayonne 's fighting days are over , an English bayonet from the Napoleonic wars converted for stripping corn-cobs . |
| 13 | Instead of following the movements of heavenly bodies , we rely on mechanical or electronic clocks to tell the time . |
| 14 | Do n't know very difficult to tell the time now how er , how long these things were |
| 15 | Getting her a book that shows you how to tell the time . |
| 16 | Remember how to tell the time . |