Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem which Jane and Nigel experienced over finding time to meet their tutors are fundamental to such projects . |
| 2 | He 'd obviously taken time over building up this little booklet explaining the stuff . |
| 3 | He 'd obviously spent time here , perhaps as much as he could spare before their marriage . |
| 4 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 5 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 6 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 7 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 8 | She 'd also had time to castigate herself for meekly following him inside . |
| 9 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 10 | He surfaced , briefly , but the swell rolled him over and drove him down again before he 'd even had time to draw breath . |
| 11 | Fortunately the Aer Lingus 737 had delivered her from Heathrow in less than an hour , so she 'd barely had time to become bored . |
| 12 | Of course , he 'd never had time to make friends . |
| 13 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 14 | Master and dame then went off to pass time with a neighbour , while the young people sit and talk happily around a good coal fire : " More free from care than knight or squire " . |
| 15 | This sounds uncharacteristically bold but he knew when to take time off from his introversion . |
| 16 | The other sense of type did not involve time . |
| 17 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 18 | Doyle did not waste time smiling . |
| 19 | He apologized and explained , but she did not waste time in argument . |
| 20 | Nutty did not waste time . |
| 21 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 22 | She did not waste time thinking it could be Oliver whose quiet movement she had sensed in the bedroom . |
| 23 | He did not waste time describing his route to the truth . |
| 24 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 25 | Hodkinson , did not waste time searching out his French opponent . |
| 26 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 27 | It could not be suggested that these justices in the instant case did not take time to consider the matter and it is not suggested , nor could it be , that they did not take a great deal of care in carrying out their duties . |
| 28 | For example , if someone says that they did not have time to read the material and asks for a summary from the author or chairman , politely refuse . |
| 29 | Three o'clock — I just finish off everything that I did not have time to do . |
| 30 | The organ grinder , however , did not have time to answer , because the drunken women had pushed his organ which began to roll down the hill . |