Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] 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 | Similarly , the company says that its plans for international expansion are pressing ahead , although it would not name any potential partners or put a time scale to its plans . |
| 3 | Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed . |
| 4 | I think he expected that to be the end of it , since he continued to be surprised and concerned every time lesbianism came up , in whatever form , over the following seven years . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 6 | She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time . |
| 7 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 8 | Anyhow , she set to and found the time to make one for me , even though she had such a large family to care for . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was out walking and forgot the time . ’ |
| 14 | On one tank I had , the fish panicked and hid every time I switched on the lighting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 17 | She found it impossible to settle after his visit , and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him . |
| 18 | Teri was a high fashion catwalk model for 10 years , and spent the time between shows talking to and watching her fellow models . |
| 19 | ‘ We had a device aboard the TARDIS called the Fault Locator which we ran over and examined every time anything went wrong with the ship . |
| 20 | Most of the architectural establishment were outraged , and lost no time in condemning the Prince . |
| 21 | She did n't know , and lost no time dwelling on it . |
| 22 | Bob Stokes , who was coach of the side when they last won the trophy ( under the guise of Whitburn ) has since been to the final on six occasions ( with Whitburn and Team Scottish Farm ) and lost every time . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll try , ’ said Mike , who had a hoarse voice like a braying donkey , the gentle timidness of a Jersey cow , and blushed every time he was spoken to . |
| 24 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 25 | James hated it and screamed every time I put him in . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |