Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They very often do n't know what the something else is going to be , but we tend to put time limits on what children should do and when they should do it . |
| 2 | She was very patient but we 'd lost time . |
| 3 | I wish we 'd had time to work on things . |
| 4 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 5 | Gerald was impatient : ‘ Do we have to waste time on an empty box ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I say , ’ said Hilary Frome , calculatedly offensive , at the height of Corbett 's triumph , ‘ do we have to waste time on these party tricks ? |
| 7 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , I wanted to take you to lunch at the Ritz , like we did last time , but it would have made us so late in Calking . |
| 9 | Do n't worry and always ask me if there 's something that we did last time and I start ta |
| 10 | So we could maybe do what we did last time . |
| 11 | But I do n't want to go around looking for candidates like we did last time . |
| 12 | We did last time , we were in bed by half ten , no eleven . |
| 13 | we 're not eating in the back room , he can get stuffed , we 'll eat in the posh end for a change Jul , like we did last time |
| 14 | Well we 'll have a look back in , I 'll have a look back in the file and see what we did last time . |
| 15 | We did find time for some work at Orkney which even produced a few seizures , but we were a little early for the oil traffic which was only just beginning to affect the island . |
| 16 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 17 | my holiday was later as usual and longer so , you know and there was a couple of other things not related to this which I 'd thought of doing and it 's sort of they evaporated , but erm , we did spend time talking to Ingy earlier in the year , you know , about publicity and I gave her lists of well such as things obvious things like Playback and Newsbeat |
| 18 | Yes and you can look at it and say , okay , we 've go time to go and make a cup of coffee , or oh , this is going well . |
| 19 | We 've got time to go out . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure we 've got time . ’ |
| 21 | Surely we 've got time to sit down somewhere and have a coffee … ? ’ |
| 22 | We 've got time before the last flight . ’ |
| 23 | Actually it looks like we 've got time to make a cup a coffee . |
| 24 | Okay thanks very much indeed that 's all we 've got time for , thank you . |
| 25 | We 've got time . |
| 26 | Right , so it will be sel self defeating , job creation in the urban areas will be self defeating and most of the , the reason why that was particularly important because historically most of the job creation schemes that governments have put in place with or without aid in developing countries is in the urban areas , you know , it 's the erm subsidized industrial plants , subsidized erm manu manufacturing industry , right so that the import substitution industries er have been set up with government and or aid money , foreign aid money and what Harrison Todaro was saying you 're wasting your time putting money into these big projects , right , because that only in that only in erm exaggerates th the migration problem because it really will increase people 's perception of er job possibilities in the urban area , they think there are jobs being created by government there , that will happen as another , as another stimulus er let me just draw a little diagram what Harrison Todaro was saying right we 've got time here such to say horizontal axis marks the lifespan of some representative migrant , then you 've got wages , wages in the agricultural area and wages in the urban area like let's just say that this is the wage rate in agriculture , right . |
| 27 | ninety six , and therefore we 've got time to do it . |
| 28 | I think because you 've been very good today we 'll play a numbers game as well if we 've got time . |
| 29 | We 've got time though , do n't we . |
| 30 | And we 've got time for a for another quiz now ai n't you ? |