Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] [adj] time in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After leaving school he spent a short time in his father 's office . |
| 2 | He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 . |
| 3 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |
| 4 | He had a happy time in the town . |
| 5 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |