Example sentences of "he [vb past] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his busy schedule , he made time to visit the conference ‘ Geordie night ’ — a gathering of north eastern MPs and activists — and was to be found one evening at the Brighton Trade Union and Labour Club with his friend Michael Elliot , a political comedian with whom he toured the coalfields during the 1984-85 pits strike . |
| 2 | Even while he was desperately busy on Soldier 's Tale , he made time to help her by offering to design the costumes , writing to Hanns that he had told her ‘ you will be here to put finishing touches on to them . |
| 3 | The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered . |
| 4 | So he got Times Roman headlines in , very simple layout , and he did some caps bold , and then he said to me he had done all the headlines ragged and I said you just missed one thing — centre the heads . |
| 5 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 6 | In all this he found time to address meetings for these and many other bodies , hold weekly classes for teaching the youth of his synagogue post-biblical history and related subjects , write articles for the Jewish press ( he founded an Anglo Jewish Journal called The Jewish Times later to be absorbed into the Canadian Jewish Chronicle ) . |
| 7 | And somewhere in the last six months he found time to contribute some enthusiastic atmospherics to New Order 's World Cup single , ‘ E Is For England ’ . |
| 8 | Others may be surprised that he found time to work on a feature while promoting a top ten hit in ‘ Groovy Train ’ . |
| 9 | Correspondents previously mentioned were independent gentlemen to whom Miller paid due deference and where little deviation detracted from the subject discussed ; whereas with Butcher , another employee , his tone was far less formal and he found time to dwell on his health , the weather and even mentioned his own servant . |
| 10 | Unlike many of the top jockeys , he found time to talk to Kelly without giving her the immediate impression that he wanted to sleep with her , although if his reputation was only half true then he did . |
| 11 | There he walked and fished and took photographs which later , when he found time , he processed himself in a friend 's dark-room . |
| 12 | Even when a cabinet minister he found time to write round for subscriptions for the Birmingham Unionists and to attend their routine meetings . |
| 13 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |
| 14 | Apart from his council work , he found time to address with technical skill and lucidity trade problems such as marketing and exporting agricultural produce , the new techniques of refrigeration and of drying milk , food adulteration , and the wartime rationalization of flour and bread movements to prevent price rises . |
| 15 | During these years he found time to study law and in 1873 was called to the Irish bar . |
| 16 | Pushing aside her need to find Grandfather 's friend , unconsciously adopting the philosophy of the Irish that there was always plenty of time , she allowed Feargal to monopolise her — although when he found time to run his farm was anyone 's guess . |
| 17 | And still he found time to heal the sick . |
| 18 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 19 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 20 | Significantly , he follows the use of conducteur by recalling more recent occasions on which he beat time . |
| 21 | Thus , so the charge runs , he evacuated time and history , and in particular our present and future , of real theological significance . |
| 22 | He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't give up those laughs for anything , ’ he told Time magazine . |
| 24 | He spent time in Strawberry Studios in Stockport laying down a guitar part for Factory based Quando Quango , a surprising move on two accounts . |
| 25 | Particularly he spent time directing a group , his twelve disciples , living , eating , travelling with them and teaching about prayer ( Lk. 11. 1–1 3 and 1 8.9.1 4 ) , about worry ( Lk. 1 2.22–31 ) , about watchfulness ( Lk. 12.35–48 ) , about true greatness ( Lk. 9.46–50 ) . |
| 26 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 27 | Many of his ideas were published in Hints on Agricultural Subjects ( 1809 ) , and his views on Ireland , where he spent time between 1813 and 1816 , in Observations on the State of Ireland , Principally Directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population ( 1818 ) . |
| 28 | Invalided back to England , he spent time in various war hospitals and , after exhibiting signs of mental instability ( including a suicide attempt on 19 June 1918 ) , he was finally discharged in October 1918 . |
| 29 | He prayed , he studied God 's word , he spent time with other Christians . |
| 30 | She 'd assumed he spent time over the border in France , where she knew he had friends . |