Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Bella spent loads of time round there . |
| 2 | After Celtic he spent periods of time with San Jose Earthquakes and Elgin City , and watched his hair and his money gradually disappear . |
| 3 | So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them . |
| 4 | For example , if people switched deposits from time deposits to sight deposits , M1 would rise but M4 would remain unchanged . |
| 5 | The house surgeon received £3.3s.0d. for attending a coroner 's inquest on a patient who had died in the infirmary , and Samuel Whitbread , in his capacity as magistrate , exacted contributions from time to time : in August 1813 , for example , the infirmary funds benefited by £10 which had been received from John Schoner and William Edwards ‘ paid in atonement to stay of prosecution for disturbing the Methodist meeting at Biggleswade during Divine Service ’ . |
| 6 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 7 | He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard . |
| 8 | Similarly worded questions over time have to take account of changes in the topics under question . |
| 9 | ( Foreigners , when it happened to them , sometimes considered it a manifestation of xenophobia ; but such evidence as there is suggests it was indiscriminate , an endemic propensity to sudden rigour which overcame individuals from time to time and afflicted everyone in contact with the official thus possessed . ) |