Example sentences of "time and [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we get older reality requires that the ideal and the self are reconciled ; ambitions are relaxed ; unrealistic goals are abandoned as time and opportunity compel us to change the idealized concept we have for ourselves . |
| 2 | the final item could include all the performers if there is time and opportunity to organise it — failing that play your trump card with a really stunning item to finish . |
| 3 | If the car was still moving , police could work out a safe time and location to intercept it . |
| 4 | Owner of a fabled art collection in California , which he was too busy ever to visit , his soon familiar face , like a bloodhound lugubriously scenting wasted pennies , was one symbol of the times : if you , too , struck oil you could be as rich and careworn as Getty and have as little time and capacity to enjoy it . |
| 5 | The need to do this could arise when time and space prevent him from having immediate contact with his source of succour , as would occur for example , on hunting expeditions . |
| 6 | I send my soul through time and space to greet you . |
| 7 | Just look at the table of comparative costs and hope that when you get to the station there 's a friendly British Rail man with time and patience to explain it all . |
| 8 | They were therefore leaving it exposed to the elements until it reached the point where ministers decided it was a waste of time and money to restore it . |
| 9 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 10 | Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time . |
| 11 | He suggested a flight time and Kemp agreed it . |
| 12 | When asked about the factors which influenced how and where they shopped , many older people said they would be ready to pay a little more for their purchases at shops which provided places to sit down , had lavatories and employed staff members who had the time and inclination to help them . |
| 13 | But the overlap in time and content makes it most convenient for the two groups to be discussed together . |
| 14 | Both players will this year be sampling the European Tour 's qualifying procedure for the second time and Everett feels he will have a distinct advantage this time around . |
| 15 | Stephanie unwound it like a cocoon , stroked and spread its spiky boughs , spent time and effort stabilising it in a bucket of earth with the weight from the kitchen scales . |
| 16 | If not , you will have to spend a lot more time and effort using them than is necessary . |
| 17 | Any information is better than none : the fact that the results are inevitably partial and suggestive rather than comprehensive and definitive should if anything increase our appreciation of those who spent so much time and effort to help us to obtain a clearer picture . |
| 18 | If time and numbers permit we may be able to start a second item . |
| 19 | And this unelected government should not be making so many new and fundamental laws , for some of these will be an embarrassment to an elected government and it will take time and trouble to repeal them . |
| 20 | Says Marcus Lyon : ‘ You are always going to get the lazy buyer who wants a barn conversion because they do n't want to take the time and trouble to do it themselves . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought the owner might appreciate me taking the time and trouble to approach them in person , ’ he bit out . |
| 22 | Even though as a graduate I was something of an oddity , I was absorbed into the background after a time and people treated me as one of them . |
| 23 | The people that do this , spend a hell of a lot of time and energy doing it . |
| 24 | It is not entirely clear what its Darwinian purpose is , but it certainly must have one , for the beavers expend so much time and energy to build it . |
| 25 | If , through your aggression , you control what I do , it takes your time and energy to supervise me , thus creating a paradoxical self-imposed servitude . |
| 26 | But unless the staff concerned are enthusiastic about the project , fully understand it , and are thus prepared to give the time and energy to make it work team teaching will be doomed to failure . |
| 27 | It is illustrated in an English manuscript of the 13th century , was used in the time of Gerard , and later by Culpeper , and altogether was so well-known and commonly used medicinally , that it was thought " but lost time and labour to describe it " . |
| 28 | Even after North 's sentencing , the blundering charmer now a felon , both Time and Newsweek called him ‘ Ollie ’ on their covers . |
| 29 | She was heavily involved in the election campaign at the time and Dysart brought her down here for dinner . |