Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 2 | The Duke of Wellington , both when ambassador in Paris and later as representative at the Congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818 and Verona in 1822 , was enlisted in the campaign and in 1814–15 Clarkson and Macaulay , in 1818 Clarkson and in 1822 William Allen all spent time at the congresses meeting political leaders and arguing for defining the slave trade as piracy under international law . |
| 3 | He 'd obviously taken time over building up this little booklet explaining the stuff . |
| 4 | This takes time but you have already saved time by working in stocking stitch and you are creating a work of art , are n't you ? |
| 5 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 6 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 7 | Had n't she already taken time off work which she could ill afford in her sister 's interests ? |
| 8 | He argued that the Europeans still needed time to arm and to build up their self-confidence . |
| 9 | Women who had been forced , in the name of Victory , to return to work in shops and factories , yet still found time at the end of the day to brew tea and serve hot meat pies , and smile . |
| 10 | Davie Irons again strolled through the game at the heart of Thistle 's defence , and still found time to be one of their best attackers . |
| 11 | Her self-discipline and game went to pieces , and she was stunned when Martina , disturbed at Pam 's fragile mental state , eventually called time on their long-standing doubles partnership . |
| 12 | For example , the account of Cnut 's visit to Sherborne in Goscelin 's Life of St Wulfsige is very likely based on Sherborne tradition , as Goscelin , a monk of St Omer , came to England at the invitation of Bishop Hermann of Sherborne , probably spent time in the community there , and was writing at Hermann 's request . |
| 13 | The Italian author Parini also spent time at the house , as tutor to the family children . |
| 14 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 15 | Danny and Dick both spent time with Saracens and Wasps , so have plenty of experience . ’ |
| 16 | Particularly if you 're flying under radar , along the ground , you have n't really got time to erm avert the eyes from the occasional tree . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've just about got time for a quick swim before breakfast . ’ |
| 18 | The TUC withheld its traditional endorsement of Labour , and Mr Bill Jordan , president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and one of a small group of TUC leaders who met Mr Kinnock every month before the election , even found time during the campaign to take a holiday in the Canary Islands . |
| 19 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 20 | Castlerock 's 1,500 residents , the majority of them Protestants , have never had time for sectarianism and division . |
| 21 | Napoleon actually spent time at the villa , staying there with Josephine . |
| 22 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |