Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 2 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 3 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 4 | The government of the US wasted little time in funding two secret thermonuclear research projects . |
| 5 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 6 | However , with Sarah Bentley making her singles debut for Surrey , the holders wasted little time in establishing a winning 5–1 lead to retain their title . |
| 7 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 8 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 9 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 10 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 11 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 12 | Now that the calls are almost constant , allowing little time for relaxation and getting to know other volunteers , the group is having to explore the possibilities of support groups and regular discussion weekends . |
| 13 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 14 | The congregation here was formed some time after 1690 though the present church building only dates from 1879 . |
| 15 | Cash with order or cash on delivery is always better than cash some time in the future . |
| 16 | But we ask you to spare some time during the holiday to think of those who are less fortunate . |
| 17 | If you are seriously contemplating taking your skills abroad , then it may be advisable to invest some time in updating yourself at home first . |
| 18 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 19 | He hoped she would spare some time for him and he promised he would not ask her to act in anything . |
| 20 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 21 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 22 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 23 | normally they do n't want this time of year . |
| 24 | I do n't like helping this time of night , sorry , it 's half past ten |
| 25 | Later , at least for many years , she was not to see this time as part of her life , and perhaps therefore it need not now be told at length . |
| 26 | When it come to excitement-value , neither of the Top Yanks holds a candle to Finn 's Hotel ( Viking , June , £12.99 , 0 670 85067 5 ) , the ‘ lost novel ’ by James Joyce , allegedly completed some time between the writing of Ulysses and Finnegan 's Wake . |
| 27 | If you are acting for a builder-seller selling a new dwelling and the builder is on the National House-Building Council 's register ( Chapter 13 ) , you may not , unless the property is completed some time before completion of the sale , have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over , in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand . |
| 28 | The unseemly haste is dictated not merely by the Government 's electoral timetable , but by the fear that if the measure is given proper time for debate there will also be time for the real , but as yet nascent , concerns of Tory Back Benchers and their constituents to grow and mature . |
| 29 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 30 | Make some time for yourself See Chapter 3 ( section on assertiveness , p. 96 ) |