Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [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 | This put all other thoughts to one side and I had no time to worry about the captain . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Marzipan is not essential for many of the cakes in this book , but is a nice addition if you have the time . |
| 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 | I 'm studying for an important examination and I have no time for horrors or mysteries . ’ |
| 9 | Most ‘ organisers ’ swan in at eight-thirty looking important , only to discover there 's a big hitch and they have no time to put it right . |
| 10 | There is no reason why a professor of history , say , should not also manage a family business if he has the time and energy . |
| 11 | The Whips will be in overdrive and there comes a time when even a politician prefers early bed and a mug of Horlicks to the thought of another late night in the lobbies . |
| 12 | Emil , the crew and I wasted no time watching . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | And it seems that this is the norm and there comes a time when you do n't always mention the norm , you do n't underline it every time , you do n't refer to it every time because it is the excepted thing . |
| 15 | The conjecture appears to gain substance when one considers the time , energy and determination invested by Green , as the WEA 's General Secretary , in the resolution of the District 's difficulties with the Cambridge Board 's rural areas scheme . |
| 16 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 17 | The media , major users of public relations material , loves taking the mickey out of public relations which is so busy working on someone else 's image that they have no time for the image of their own industry . |
| 18 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 19 | ‘ I have two or three Alembics , which are lovely guitars — great in a studio if you have the time to sit and work with hi-tech electronics . |
| 20 | But he added : ‘ If , however , it means that managers are so distracted discussing the process of privatisation that they have no time left to manage , then that would be a most unhappy state of affairs . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It is leap year and I lost no time in popping the question as I think he is the right man to lead Claro and Grindlewood Park into the twenty-first century . ’ |
| 22 | His wrists are in a cocked position and he has no time to release the clubhead with any force . |
| 23 | and then a , a guy that I served the time on , he , he was he was |
| 24 | It 's nothing changed really apart from the fact that I get the time with the little one . |
| 25 | The heritage area also , I 'm sure Jim said to us yesterday , is well worth a visit if you have the time , to see the Mary Rose and the Victory , and we have a very good selection of Indian restaurants , I recommend the Kashmir in |
| 26 | And she bought things with her erm twenty five pound voucher said I was having a lovely time and I forgot the time ! |
| 27 | She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader . |