Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for eighteen months we only met three times , when he visited during his leaves . |
| 2 | He must have tried in the darkness ; perhaps tried many times . |
| 3 | ‘ I only fell that time because of those steps . |
| 4 | THE RALLY started on Sunday , 2 February at 10 am and the freezing cold morning saw many last-minute checks by various crews on all those things they had forgotten or already checked three times . |
| 5 | Children generally spent less time working and more time distracted as the size of their work groups increased from one to twenty . |
| 6 | She desperately needed some time alone to think . |
| 7 | She could never remember just how the rag business started , but she recollected that she no longer went three times a week to the paid school . |
| 8 | Her expression showed that she no longer had any time for jokes . |
| 9 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 10 | Its fifteen subject committees usually met three times a year and contributed to the development of a long series of projects . |
| 11 | In 1904 he sold part of his collection of eighteenth-century English water-colours to ( Sir ) Edward Marsh [ q.v. ] and thereafter devoted much time to his Botticelli studies , from 1905 living mostly in Florence , where he bought and restored an old palazzo , which became the Museo Horne after his death . |
| 12 | IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again . |
| 13 | Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing . |
| 14 | The first time I ever spent any time with Jackie was also my baptism into driving around a circuit fast . |
| 15 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 16 | As someone who once worked full time for two years in one of the most high-powered urban planning teams ever assembled in this country , I see those four points as virtually certain consequences of the Government 's proposals . |
| 17 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 18 | Nothing happened at first , but Peccable had warned him the Bowls usually took some time to start from cold . |
| 19 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |
| 20 | One student looking still had some time to go before his grant aid ended . |
| 21 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 22 | Roberto Baggio also scored four times . |
| 23 | He probably spent some time at Wittenberg with Luther . |
| 24 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 25 | Compared with their less-successful rivals , the best-performing firms had fewer managers , shorter lines of communication and a higher proportion of skilled workers ; they also spent six times more per employee on education and training . |
| 26 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |
| 27 | But on the journey to Vadinamia I also spent some time giving a little thought to security . |
| 28 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 29 | Boys were more often distracted , and also spent more time waiting for attention from their teachers . |
| 30 | I realized that Hindley did not care what conditions he lived in , and Joseph clearly spent more time praying than cleaning . |