Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 2 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 3 | Similarly , with the various aspects of stock work , careful and skilful handling not only reduced the time and effort of the person involved but also the stress to the stock . |
| 4 | The political and intellectual ‘ zeitgiest ’ of England in the Thirties appears to have suited James ' radical and romantic temperament ; this period of intense political ferment gave James the opportunity to become embroiled in the great political and ideological debates that so dominated the times . |
| 5 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 6 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 7 | Mrs M no longer had the time to devote to the girl who sought schooling for herself . |
| 8 | Edwin always noted the time he began and finished an analysis and the procedure he adopted . |
| 9 | Not having to visit Fleet Street meant that her afternoon and evening off could be genuinely relaxing , and she usually spent the time knitting , sewing or reading , with only the occasional foray up West . |
| 10 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 11 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 12 | She also found the time to raise five children — Tommy , Bill , Jack , Molly and myself , the youngest . |
| 13 | She also recalled the time Tippett had ‘ flu and stayed at their home where he was nursed back to good health . |
| 14 | We also measured the time between presentation to hospital and a definite diagnosis of pyloric stenosis being made ; time between presentation to hospital and surgery ; length of preoperative rehydration treatment ; and total length of stay in hospital . |
| 15 | She probably spent the time it took her to get to Alès working out her story . |
| 16 | Some other students — but he knew from experience that his mother would want all the details , and he clearly remembered the time he had slipped out for an evening to meet a girl the only girl he had ever really liked . |
| 17 | The foremost advocate of social reform in the Cabinet , Joseph Chamberlain , was Colonial Secretary and responsible for the conduct of the war and hence had no time to pursue social issues . |
| 18 | I both said a time . |
| 19 | She clearly had no time for Burley Woodhead when there was so much going on in Bradford . |
| 20 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 21 | But I now felt the time was coming to move on to another department . |
| 22 | In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify . |
| 23 | Between 1962 and 1965 , de Gaulle reclaimed a more active role in domestic policy , partly because he now had the time to do so and partly because Pompidou , who had never held elective office , had a more presidentialist conception of the constitution than Debré . |
| 24 | ‘ I just i n't 'ad the time . ’ |
| 25 | Now that the new system of advanced courses is becoming well established the time has come for the work of the Central Support Unit to be absorbed into mainstream SCOTVEC Departments . |
| 26 | In a sense the recent pressure of work was a blessing , for it isolated her , forcing her to concentrate so intensely that she simply had no time to dig deeply into such perplexities . |
| 27 | Then came the time to really pick up the slack once more . |
| 28 | I dialled , waited , then counted the times it rang . |
| 29 | Sometimes they were right , news crews rarely had the time or the inclination to pursue the finer points . |
| 30 | Lewis anxiously opened The Times Literary Supplement every Friday for a year , hoping far a good notice for the poem . |