Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Eton , he had been fag to a charmless older boy who had wasted no time in introducing Henry to the joys of homosexuality . |
| 2 | To stop this happening you need to convert the time to a fixed value . |
| 3 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 4 | It is the method I have used every time I have heard the shrieks and pounding feet indicating discovery . |
| 5 | A final method of curtailing debate arises under Standing Order No. 22 which authorises the Speaker or a chairman to stop a Member who seeks to waste the time of the House by tediously repeating himself . |
| 6 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 7 | Any time you 've got a time clause clause , what 's clause ? |