Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general opinion seems to be that since the bastard 's decided to stop shooting people , he can remain anonymous , stay at large , enjoy life and freedom , and laugh up his sleeve at an incompetent police force until he decides the time has come for a little more high-velocity fun . ’ |
| 2 | Nathaniel Sherman peered at his watch , his face puckering in concentration as he calculated the time necessary to allow the buffalo to move into the most favourable range . |
| 3 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 4 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 5 | After a spring and summer during which he was so busy with his ordinary duties that he had no time to himself at all — not even his evenings — he returned again to America in the late autumn of 1950 . |
| 6 | To Charles he was an indispensable source of wisdom and experience and he relished the time spent in his company . |
| 7 | He returned to England in mid-September but then , to add to his physical woes , he suffered an attack of arthritis : it required massage and he resented the time he had to spend travelling to and from the masseur . |
| 8 | There is no reason why a professor of history , say , should not also manage a family business if he has the time and energy . |
| 9 | Dr Myerscough said : ‘ I have tried to put myself in the consultant 's shoes in this situation and I think his apparent instinct that he thought the time had come to induce labour was correct . ’ |
| 10 | He knows that tomorrow he has to tell Potter that he needs the time off again . |
| 11 | His wrists are in a cocked position and he has no time to release the clubhead with any force . |
| 12 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |