Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Enlightenment period is very much a Prayer and Liturgy centred time . |
| 2 | Until now this final result involved time and effort on the part of the host . |
| 3 | Apart from what sounds like a fairly hectic studio schedule , I wondered if Clem found time to get out and play live . |
| 4 | Candidates from 3 of the Parties found time for Christian Aid also . |
| 5 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 6 | Adopting a hierarchical standpoint and preferring to speak in terms of ‘ life ’ rather than ‘ motion ’ , Plotinus regarded time as an intermediate between eternity ( or the higher soul that contemplates eternity ) and the motion of the universe which reveals time as the ‘ life ’ ( or creative power ) of ‘ soul ’ . |
| 7 | On the minus side , the performance monitor took time to become familiar with . |
| 8 | On a recent visit to the Republic of Ireland 's new LCCIEB examination centres , , from our Marketing Department took time out to meet prize winners from Skerry 's Business College in Cork . |
| 9 | The words took time to sink in — to herself as much as to the rest . |
| 10 | Outside , before his grief had time to clot , the wind yearned a different plaint , but it did n't matter . |
| 11 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 12 | The petition must state : ( i ) the amount of the debt ( in sterling , converted from any foreign currency at the official exchange rate at the date of issue of the petition , by analogy with r 6.111 ) , the consideration for it ( or , if there is no consideration , the way in which it arises ) and the fact that it is owed to the petitioner ; ( ii ) when the debt was incurred or became due ; ( iii ) if the debt includes interest or any other charge accruing from time to time , the amount or rate of the charge ( separately identified ) and the grounds upon which it is claimed to form part of the debt provided that , in the case of a petition based upon a statutory demand , only the interest claimed in the demand is included ; ( iv ) that the debt is unsecured , and either that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable immediately and the debtor appears to be unable to pay it , or that the debt is for a liquidated sum payable at some certain future specified time and the debtor appears to have no reasonable prospect of being able to pay it . |
| 13 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 14 | Before Edward had time to simmer down he was buttonholed by Mrs Willmot , who had been lurking . |
| 15 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |
| 16 | Dot had time to worry . |
| 17 | Mr. Gillespie wanted time to consider over it , and promised to let the Secretary know by the end of the week whether he would accept or not . " |
| 18 | The killer wanted time to sell the Escort and use the bank books ‘ before the balloon went up ’ . |
| 19 | Angry , frustrated , humiliated — all the usual emotions experienced time and again in his presence . |
| 20 | Most white people , ’ Hall told Time , ‘ have never been to a party at a black person 's house . |
| 21 | Like the good storyteller he was , Titch allowed time for this to sink in before going on . |
| 22 | In that long thin strip of middle England , with its old towns and charmless Birmingham commuter-belt estates , Tory canvassers heard time and time again that voters wanted to punish the government for the poll tax . |
| 23 | Several years ago the authorities decided that the mountains needed time to ‘ rest ’ from such a massive intrusion , and the walk has never been held since . |
| 24 | Curtis took time to consider his reply . |
| 25 | Greater weight is given to propositions contained in judgments where the judges took time to consider their judgments . |
| 26 | Until after 1900 the Belgian miners took time off at the right season ( if necessary by an annual ‘ potato strike ’ ) to look after their potato patches . |
| 27 | And she was delighted and discumknockerated when the King of the Diddymen took time off to congratulate her on her forthcoming wedding to Springfields maintenance fitter Tony Lindsay . |
| 28 | The sense of urgency over the issue took time to spread . |
| 29 | Titch took time to consider the question . |
| 30 | In effect , this machine dissected time by the weighing of successive equal quantities of fluid . |