Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 2 | Like most rulers in the Dark Ages and the later Medieval and Renaissance periods , Charles paid attention to the patterns of the stars and planets ; he studied the astronomy of the time , which was unified with astrology and philosophy based upon the Four Elements ( Air , Fire , Water , Earth ) . |
| 3 | The language belonged to a forthright , dogmatic man , but it captured the spirit of the time : confidence , determination , a radical zeal for rebuilding . |
| 4 | Though the inspector made no note of the time nor the wavelength of the broadcast , he remembered its contents . |
| 5 | She took out her diary and made a note of the time of the meeting . |
| 6 | Because Revson just did a small number of American races and spent the rest of the time on the FI circuit . |
| 7 | She thought about her fiancé Jonathan , Jonathan Whalley , who worked intermittently in his father 's firm and spent the rest of the time playing hard . |
| 8 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 9 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 10 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 11 | Our John spent the rest of the time . |
| 12 | Founded by Muz Murray , who was featured on the first issue 's cover breaking out of an egg , Gandalf 's Garden distilled the essence of the time 's peace , love , mysticism , and delusion . |
| 13 | On a door lintel at Hill there is an inscription , ‘ J.D. — B.G.1692 ’ , which followed a custom of the time and probably commemorated the date of their wedding or betrothal . |
| 14 | The Labour party warned the Government of the time bomb that was being being created by their policies months before they took any action to try to stem the flow of repossessions . |
| 15 | Defrosting a fridge also took a fraction of the time . |
| 16 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 17 | Claire 's eight-week-old baby , Jamie , was apparently healthy but cried a lot of the time , and seemed to be in pain . |
| 18 | and when I see the buses now running around , they seem to run everywhere I do n't on earth what kind of running board they 've got because in my day it was so well regulated that erm you just recorded certain intermediate stages and I quote Witton and Rushmere you get , used to get Witton Terminus , Norwich Road Bridge , Sherrington Road , Barret Corner , Electric House and you gave an indication of the time that those buses should be passing those times . |
| 19 | He slept a lot of the time , either in bed or sprawled in the most comfortable chair in the kitchen and snoring loudly with his mouth open . |
| 20 | The house was silent and she had no idea of the time but , as it was light , she got up , dressed and went downstairs . |
| 21 | ‘ I had no idea of the time , ’ she murmured , pushing back a tendril of hair and leaning back in her chair . |