Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the 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 | ‘ I came to pass the time of day , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 6 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 12 | and asked to put the time signature in . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Using workflow , one hardware manufacturer managed to cut the time taken to process an invoice from six weeks to three days . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Early studies suggested TV did reduce the time spent reading a paper . |
| 22 | He took two pals along with him for company and planned to spend the time snapping rare African wildlife . |
| 23 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 24 | Her Honour Judge Marian Norrie-Walker , formerly Marian Jackson , who graduated with an LLB in 1961 , talked recently to MOYRA SUTCLIFFE about her unusual career path and how much she had enjoyed the time she spent at Nottingham . |
| 25 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 26 | She herself had forgotten the time when , long ago , she had slapped her governess 's face for rapping her fingers with a ruler . |
| 27 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 28 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 29 | She had thought the time had gone when thoughts of Jake could upset her . |
| 30 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |