Example sentences of "tell the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spaniards have been told the time of sacrifice is over ; now come the years of effort — an effort to make Spain fit to enter European monetary and economic union in 1997 . |
| 2 | Watches that tell the time in 18 different languages , make toast and have so many knobs and dials that the clock face is completely obscured . |
| 3 | It 's an astronomical device based on a twenty-four-hour pattern which tells the time of day , the position of the moon , the constellations of the zodiac . |
| 4 | After all , you have been telling the time for years , have n't you ? |
| 5 | Also known as ‘ mass clocks ’ they offered a means of telling the time for church services : an appropriately placed stick cast a shadow on the hour-scale . |
| 6 | The clock did a lot more besides telling the time of day . |
| 7 | These star charts were provided to enable the deceased to tell the time of night or the date in the calendar . |
| 8 | Help your child to tell the time with this nursery clock which has a solid pine surround and clown design . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |