Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have grown a beautiful rose , learnt to type or finished the Times crossword , you have succeeded in something which mattered to you . |
| 2 | ‘ It was getting that poor man free that took the time , ’ said Rachel . |
| 3 | It had fewer reporters , fewer offices and relied more heavily than did the Times on official press releases from the Government and its news agency , ZANA . |
| 4 | She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time . |
| 5 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 6 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 7 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 8 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 9 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 10 | On that day we scrutinised all the temporary folders in the box and noted the time that had elapsed since the proper notes had been requested . |
| 11 | I was out walking and forgot the time . ’ |
| 12 | He stayed in Paris for a week , and spent the time looking at paintings and collecting souvenirs — a stone from the Bastille , for example ; yet on his arrival in Orleans he met officers and members of Royalist clubs . |
| 13 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 14 | She found it impossible to settle after his visit , and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him . |
| 15 | Teri was a high fashion catwalk model for 10 years , and spent the time between shows talking to and watching her fellow models . |
| 16 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 17 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 18 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
| 19 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 20 | She lowered her lashes and sighed deeply , prolonging the moment from a sense of fun ; and then she saw his face , glimpsed the uncertainty there and knew the time for games was over . |
| 21 | These giant machines , including a nine-feeder installed in 1847 , were considerable feats of engineering and enabled The Times to have an enormous circulation by 1850 , reducing its rivals to pygmies . |
| 22 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 23 | He supported the Japanese at the time of the Russo-Japanese war and represented The Times at the Portsmouth peace conference in 1905 . |
| 24 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 25 | Anne Ridler noticed how Eliot " affected a certain detachment from the proceedings , and did The Times crossword during the meetings , but his business judgments were as shrewd as anyone 's … " |
| 26 | Son Stephen , aged 18 , had driven since he was a junior but decided the time was right to take a back seat to pursue a career . |
| 27 | Mr Hurd said he opposed military action , but conceded the time had come where he could ‘ imagine armed action against Serbia to prevent a general Balkan war ’ . |