Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 2 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 3 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 4 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 5 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 6 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 7 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 8 | Her Honour Judge Marian Norrie-Walker , formerly Marian Jackson , who graduated with an LLB in 1961 , talked recently to MOYRA SUTCLIFFE about her unusual career path and how much she had enjoyed the time she spent at Nottingham . |
| 9 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 10 | She herself had forgotten the time when , long ago , she had slapped her governess 's face for rapping her fingers with a ruler . |
| 11 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 12 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 13 | She had thought the time had gone when thoughts of Jake could upset her . |
| 14 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 15 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 16 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 17 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 18 | They had spent the time wandering round the Reserve , watching the widgeon ducks and other wildfowl paddling in the lagoon close to the sea . |
| 19 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 20 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
| 21 | Nobody had counted the time or the trouble . |
| 22 | Isabel wondered when fitzAlan had found the time to pack up the garments . |
| 23 | Fakrid had entered the Time of Blood . |
| 24 | In the previous week the manor had cut the time to the summit by five minutes , but this was still two minutes short of the performance of No 75069 in June . |
| 25 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 26 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |
| 27 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 28 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 29 | He had fled abroad when Mary Tudor succeeded , and had passed the time writing letters of consolation to English Protestants , and , in 1554 , a savage attack on the English government , the Admonition to England . |
| 30 | Otherwise the men had passed the time reading and keeping an eye out for aircraft . |