Example sentences of "time [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 2 | so did the automatic thing which proves that it takes a bit of time and patience before you 've achieved this |
| 3 | The Defence Minister , Yitzhak Rabin , whose Labour Party forced last Friday 's inner cabinet vote on the Egyptian proposal , dismissed talk of a deadlock : ‘ I have time and patience and I am not pessimistic , ’ he said . |
| 4 | They are a waste of time and money and I do n't believe they work |
| 5 | They waste time and money when their sole interest is to secure the maximum publicity for their causes . |
| 6 | She took advantage with both elbows of the luxury of padded arms , and felt soothed by the warm , impersonal darkness , the bovine torpor of those around her , and her own pleased consciousness of wasting time and money when she should have been studying . |
| 7 | Usually that results in a lot of wasted time and money as you sort out problems which should have been dealt with before you opened the studio door . |
| 8 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 9 | It just as is the want of sheep , it just wandered away from one clump of grass to another , losing all sense of time and direction until it , was lost ! |
| 10 | ‘ I see stars , ’ she whispered into his ear , clutching him tightly , her eyes shut , all-seeing in the darkness , understanding earth and time and life and what it is in the moment 's joy . |
| 11 | I believe that a port to Unix using the toolkit will take less time and resources than our conversion to support Apple 's system 7 . |
| 12 | It was felt that was totally contradictory as community care was more expensive and required a lot more time and resources if it was to be quality care . |
| 13 | Follow through will cost you dearly in time and effort but it may reward you handsomely in terms of what happens to your report . |
| 14 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 15 | Consequently , not only does the faculty include departments that study Philosophy and History over a wide range of time and place but there is also a notably broad spread of modern European languages and literatures ( English and Scottish , of course ; but also Danish , Dutch , French , Gaelic , German , Italian , Norwegian , Portuguese , Russian , Spanish , Swedish ) as well as the Classics ( Latin , Greek ) . |
| 16 | You could put Skinner down in front of any audience in any time and place and he would have it in stitches ’ The Guardian . |
| 17 | Scott 's network job was taking up more time and concentration than he 'd expected . |
| 18 | Yeah , he was on it some time and Charles and they 'd put him back on the ward becau when John last saw him , cos he , John was visiting er , used to be having treatment or something at |
| 19 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 20 | I 'm a Labour Party member and I would urge as many people as possible to join in , but I also recognize that many people feel membership demands the time and commitment that they have n't got . |
| 21 | They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity . |
| 22 | Really , you 're giving them time and control and it 's up to you , it 's an alternative choice on the whole thing . |
| 23 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 24 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 25 | You will save yourself much time and trouble if you have a course of lessons from a qualified teacher ( all the information you need is in the next chapter ) . |
| 26 | The chase and the conquest take so much time and energy that there is often little room for anything else in life . |
| 27 | The extent to which the PCF was committed to popular front cultural politics can be appreciated both by the amount of time and energy that it devoted to the anti-fascist congresses , peace movements and revolutionary cultural associations of the period , and by its willingness to engage in the policy of la main tendue ( " the outstretched hand " ) in its relations with sympathisers of any persuasion , ideological or religious , willing to collaborate in its struggle against capitalist warmongering , imperialism , fascism and oppression . |
| 28 | The essential ingredients of gaining control of your time are knowing what is important and what is less so , ruthlessly putting your precious time and energy where it will produce the highest return and refusing to be swamped with other people 's inefficiency . |
| 29 | The congestion metering system will ultimately include information to the driver on the expected journey time and costs as he approaches the city . |
| 30 | The spirit of Ord 25 was to save time and costs and there was no evidence that two similar experts would waste either . |