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

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1 They had made good time .
2 We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness .
3 A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families .
4 And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height .
5 She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for .
6 Peter Evans , the first non-family chairman to be appointed to the liqueur company when he joined late last year , said yesterday that the company had spent considerable time evaluating its needs in the light of its decision to focus on its core business , the production of Drambuie Liqueur .
7 I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women .
8 Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) .
9 this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children .
10 We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' .
11 She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave .
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