Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 2 | I wanted to be a writer ( hence the course ) but was also toying with the idea of the group , which I pursued full time after finishing . |
| 3 | I needed full time help . |
| 4 | These are ones I bought long time ago . |
| 5 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 6 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 7 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 8 | ‘ You made good time . ’ |
| 9 | Because she spent endless time and money searching for her father , for the man on her birth certificate who did n't exist ! |
| 10 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 11 | Well she said quiet time of the year this a bit . |
| 12 | It is better to report that you had insufficient time to collect certain data than to produce half baked results . |
| 13 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 14 | But I 'm encouraged by the way we finished extra time . |
| 15 | They made good time thereafter , considering the darkness , encountering no problems . |
| 16 | Instead , they snatched extra time in the 80th minute when Cork got a touch onto Glyn Hodges ' cross and as a defender attempted to clear , the ball was driven against Ward and back past a helpless Mimms . |
| 17 | Although traditional attitudes towards women were changing gradually , a new sex equality act was needed to allow women to choose whether they worked full time , part time or stayed at home with their children . |
| 18 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 19 | He also lived at Pinner and erm then the work dried up and he first of all he did work was a postman at Christmas time , you know just as a thing and then he started you know then he became full time you know . |
| 20 | He worked full time but had to spend most of the rest of his life feeding himself intravenously . |
| 21 | It kept good time . |
| 22 | It took considerable time here for the work of the CAB to be understood but its place is now firmly established . |
| 23 | It took considerable time to charge the palladium fully and Fleischmann was in Britain when , one night , Pons ' son was sent to the laboratory to reduce the current . |
| 24 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | , because unusually he had sufficient time to compose and measure his shot . |