Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation .
2 Mounting economic problems in Japan and Germany , and the London property crisis , could mean that economic revival will be long deferred ; a party whose record made the Financial Times refuse to back it is going to have its work cut out to keep in control .
3 After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves .
4 — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time .
5 In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police .
6 You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues .
7 They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’
8 Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour .
9 Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky .
10 I simply used the extra time to polish them a little . ’
11 He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty .
12 First , he changed the dramatic time .
13 Stephen entered a short time later , looking anxious .
14 Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ .
15 He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’
16 He used a basic time range , later extended , of nine years , checking bibliographic coverage for 4 years before the base year , and four years afterwards .
17 The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later .
18 So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time .
19 He complained about the cart , the reins , the horse , the road , the sky , his watch ( which never told the right time ) and his clothing .
20 Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning .
21 The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ .
22 That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ .
23 ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April .
24 When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’
25 The petrochemical industry 's current and immediate future state is a ‘ classic example of the good , the bad and the ugly ’ , Doug Campbell , deputy chief executive of BP Chemicals , told the Financial Times petrochemicals conference in London recently .
26 Companies told the Financial Times that ‘ much of the opposition to their plans is ill-informed and orchestrated by outsiders .
27 By the sixteenth century mining operations had become closely regulated by the clock according to Agricola ( Georg Bauer ) , who in his De re metallica , of 1555 , noted the precise times of shifts .
28 Maybe it just seemed the right time , and the right place … ’
29 ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said .
30 There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him .
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