Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice Freeman grabbed a second for Nova and with eight minutes remaining Graham Murphy equalised to force extra time . |
| 2 | When I left school I automatically went into the shop with Elise , and began to knit full time . ’ |
| 3 | Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think . |
| 4 | Cranleigh manager Roy Kelsey made a double substitution as Cranleigh battled to force extra time and they were almost rewarded in the final minutes , with Cann charging the ball down before the ever-dangerous Carpenter could place his shot . |
| 5 | Until recent years , when the popularity of the short story has greatly increased , it was looked upon as a sort of poor relation to the novel , something the novelist did to occupy idle time , rather like whittling wood . |
| 6 | They had made good time . |
| 7 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 8 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 9 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 10 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 11 | Peter Evans , the first non-family chairman to be appointed to the liqueur company when he joined late last year , said yesterday that the company had spent considerable time evaluating its needs in the light of its decision to focus on its core business , the production of Drambuie Liqueur . |
| 12 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 13 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 14 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 15 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |
| 16 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 17 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |