Example sentences of "time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | As I said earlier this year , there will not be enough of any one crop to give self-sufficiency , but the contribution this small plot has made to the good budget has ten times repaid the outlay on seeds and materials . |
| 3 | With its three times zoom range the FZ–3000 covers the vast majority of everyday shooting conditions . |
| 4 | The navigator plotter and bomb aimer would independently calculate the course to be flown and times to target and an agreement would be reached as to final course . |
| 5 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 6 | The French several times reneged on their pledges of future autonomy for the Lebanese . |
| 7 | She had the sad and deflated appearance of somebody who had once lived life to the full but now had only the memories of such times to sustain her — like a galleon whose sails sag limply round the masts where once they have billowed majestically . |
| 8 | Using some scraps of board , it is worth experimenting with exposure times to optimise the UV time period . |
| 9 | WHITE WILLOW BARK — USED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES TO TREAT PAINS & FEVERS . |
| 10 | Figure 2.3 illustrates a production flow in the TV industry with just three stages , but these would have to be extended many times to include all the firms involved . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , on 7 June 1973 , the New York Times revealed details of what the NSA was doing and , faced with the possibility of having to admit to an illegal act in open court , the NSA swiftly terminated the operations . |
| 12 | There was a sense of resentment in the press reports when , as The Times revealed , the ratepayers of London had to pay the costs of Lord Haw-Haw 's legal defence , he having no money of his own in England — or , indeed , anywhere else . |
| 13 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 14 | A study of forty-eight major new product innovations in four-US sectors suggested that the ratio of imitation costs to innovation costs averaged about 65 per cent on average , while imitation times averaged some 70 per cent of innovation times . |
| 15 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 16 | The dolls became amusing , and at times touching , symbols of childhood moods , and although the treatment was at times sentimental it also had a genuine gaiety . |
| 17 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 18 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 19 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |
| 20 | The Times agreed : ‘ It brings back Old London , unlighted and without a police . ’ |
| 21 | The hard times foreseen by Nicholas senior now came . |
| 22 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 23 | But within days meal times became battlegrounds between my family and me , and I needed the long walks more than ever , to let off steam . |
| 24 | When trade was good , Brookhouse expanded and thrived and when times became hard , it lost value and was leased out to many different tenants . |
| 25 | It was much later on in my thirties and on one occasion even later than that , when I met two men who at different times became very special to me . |
| 26 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 27 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 28 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 29 | The Department of Trade and Industry paper was reported by the Sunday Times to claim that Britain 's manufacturing base was weak and deteriorating . |
| 30 | They eat almost continuously for a month , pausing only to shed their skins several times to accommodate their ever-increasing bodies . |