Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The not very exacting demands of a theology degree gave him time to make a lot of useful Anglican friends . |
| 2 | David Straney increased Glenavon 's lead when the Larne defence allowed him time and space to score . |
| 3 | An ample private income allowed him time to indulge his tastes for writing , politics , and rowing . |
| 4 | My presence , which Helmut claimed only when business lent him time , Jean-Claude demanded constantly . |
| 5 | Re-stowing the rest of the sails gave him time to get the details straight in his head . |
| 6 | Gachot then spun after running over some debris from the Patrese/Moreno incident and the subsequent tyre stop cost him time . |
| 7 | Wegerle gave Rovers the lead in the 72nd minute when the Ipswich defence gave him time and space to drive home from the edge of the area . |
| 8 | After twenty-eight rounds Cribb was unable to come to scratch , but a ruse by his seconds gave him time to recover , and Molineaux retired in the thirty-third round . |
| 9 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |