Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I tried to pass the time imagining the pleasant , and peaceful , countryside all around us as we drove through the mountains . |
| 3 | The bacon burgers were awful and the coffee was at 1000 degrees C , but that months copy of VIZ helped to pass the time . |
| 4 | On the lighter side actually , my husband , and my sister-in- law and brother-in-law used to smoke , and I got very cute to this , because I sa , noticed that they stopped working every time they had cigarette |
| 5 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 6 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 7 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 8 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 9 | She 'd had no time to examine her reaction to this revelation any further , however , for he had proceeded to cut across her thoughts . |
| 10 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 11 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 12 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 13 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 14 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 16 | and asked to put the time signature in . |
| 17 | Kim began to study the time these meridians were formed in different species and in a way , echoing Burr 's reports , found that within the embryonic chick , for example , they manifested within fifteen hours of conception ! |
| 18 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |
| 19 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |
| 20 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 21 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 22 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 23 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 24 | This one held a baby in her arms , and kept curtsying every time she finished a sentence . |
| 25 | Using workflow , one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days . |
| 26 | But Nigel did take the time to explain that b that basically this was the , the , the view that the new directive would take place keeping it simple . |
| 27 | Early studies suggested TV did reduce the time spent reading a paper . |
| 28 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 29 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 30 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |