Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 2 | I checked the time again . |
| 3 | Derek Williams , who beat Hughroy Currie for the vacant European heavyweight title on Tuesday night , wasted no time yesterday in throwing a gauntlet in the direction of the British champion , Gary Mason . |
| 4 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |
| 5 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 6 | In the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark on the other hand , Charles Dickens ( whose father spent a time there in 1824 ) made clear in Little Dorrit the prisoners were able to find help of every kind within the prison 's walls . |
| 7 | He chose the time carefully , lurked and caught Dersingham as he was coming from the stable yard after having driven himself out . |
| 8 | She remembered the time only three days previously when the Senior Scientific Officer of the instrument section bad let her look into the giant scanning electron microscope and watch the image of a minute pill of putty burst instantaneously into an exotic incandescent flower . |
| 9 | In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify . |