Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immacolata tried to refuse one time , pleading her figure ; but Talia , who could eat anything without putting on weight , she was so lithe and quick , tucked in to her heaped cornet , running her tongue happily round the sides to catch the melting drips of rose , green , cream . |
| 2 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 3 | Maurice Freeman grabbed a second for Nova and with eight minutes remaining Graham Murphy equalised to force extra time . |
| 4 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 5 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 6 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 7 | It grieves me to say that the committee seemed to spend some time trying to denigrate the authority 's findings and to vindicate the tobacco industry . |
| 8 | Nicholas Roe , a writer who used to be a fishmonger , says : ‘ I seemed to spend more time sending fish back than selling it . |
| 9 | Ice expected to last some time , but look for a few skimmers and perch at Newport on pole and maggot . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 11 | When I left school I automatically went into the shop with Elise , and began to knit full time . ’ |
| 12 | Will began to spend more time in Stratford , because it was quiet there , and he could do his writing . |
| 13 | They began to spend less time together . |
| 14 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 15 | So he decided he needed to invest some time in , in that . |
| 16 | He needed to spend more time in Burford , discussing the terms of his future tenancy with James Price . |
| 17 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 18 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 19 | Joe failed to respond this time . |
| 20 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 21 | Cranleigh manager Roy Kelsey made a double substitution as Cranleigh battled to force extra time and they were almost rewarded in the final minutes , with Cann charging the ball down before the ever-dangerous Carpenter could place his shot . |
| 22 | Hence he never bothered to devote much time to Spanish affairs ; wishful thinking and ignorance exposed his views on the value of Spain to a series of disillusionments . |
| 23 | However , the pensione was not particularly comfortable and she preferred to spend more time away from it than in it . |
| 24 | Until recent years , when the popularity of the short story has greatly increased , it was looked upon as a sort of poor relation to the novel , something the novelist did to occupy idle time , rather like whittling wood . |
| 25 | He also planned to spend some time studying work in a flour-mill . |
| 26 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 27 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 28 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 29 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 30 | The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt . |