Example sentences of "[vb past] the time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , their " day " lengthened to nearly 26 hours , so that when they resurfaced , they underestimated the time they had spent below ground . |
| 2 | I noted the time they woke up every day , the places they fed , the food they ate , the time of year they made their nests , and so on . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Edwin always noted the time he began and finished an analysis and the procedure he adopted . |
| 5 | Over a period of two weeks they noted the time she went to bed each night and calculated an average ‘ time late ’ . |
| 6 | Charles enjoyed the time he spent with his wife and children , but the events of the last four years had been no less momentous for him , and his way of coping with the stress and tensions in his life had always been by testing himself physically . |
| 7 | She probably spent the time it took her to get to Alès working out her story . |
| 8 | This partly explains why the review took the time it did , since the computer can spend nearly four days running a full set of figures . |
| 9 | It 's actually you know , if you took the time you make a tremendous , it 'd make a tremendous big area would n't it ? |
| 10 | Some other students — but he knew from experience that his mother would want all the details , and he clearly remembered the time he had slipped out for an evening to meet a girl the only girl he had ever really liked . |
| 11 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 12 | Claudia closed her eyes as she remembered the time she had come home earlier than usual . |
| 13 | I was awake last night and suddenly remembered the time you made me rise early to flight the duck . |
| 14 | He returned to England in mid-September but then , to add to his physical woes , he suffered an attack of arthritis : it required massage and he resented the time he had to spend travelling to and from the masseur . |
| 15 | If they had the time they 'd have cut words or letters out of magazines . |
| 16 | And Sid had said , ‘ If I had the time I could write down some of the things I 've seen that you would n't believe . ’ |
| 17 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
| 18 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |