Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time [subord] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 2 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 3 | The fact that this may take centuries is of little importance , for mankind has limitless time if it uses it wisely . |
| 4 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 5 | Nancy appreciates that others might need more time than she takes , to absorb and follow her instructions . |
| 6 | Tony did express an interest in going last time so we felt that |
| 7 | THE hype began some time before we met . |
| 8 | It actually takes some time before I get to the stage of asking for his name , the date or details of the place where he lives . |
| 9 | I remember one time before he met Hilda — he seemed to have a different lass every Saturday night for a year or more . |
| 10 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 11 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 12 | The number of weeks paid holiday that a worker will get is increasing rapidly so as today we have the norm of twenty days plus public bank holidays , giving more time if you like to engage in a package holiday abroad . |
| 13 | ‘ It will simply take less time if you tell us . ’ |
| 14 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 15 | ‘ The rescue took less time than you anticipated . |
| 16 | Are you taking more time as you go along ? |
| 17 | ‘ Ideally , I like to allow enough time so I do n't need to rush and make us both tense . |
| 18 | and he got same time as I did . |
| 19 | ‘ How do I look ? ’ he questioned , and almost smiled that time as he followed on , ‘ No , do n't answer that ! |
| 20 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 21 | They will have lost little time if we do decide that they are too specialist . |
| 22 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 23 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 24 | She shook her head , lifting her coat down from the peg , her heart beating double time as he came and took it from her to slide it smoothly up her arms . |