Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally the top two finishers in each event would be named in the team provided they met the qualifying time set by the International Amateur Athletic Federation . |
| 2 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 3 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 4 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 5 | You then work with your dog the whole time and all the time you 're working with your dog , naturally enough , it 's a young dog , so you 're being tested and evaluated the whole time , so your training continues . |
| 6 | They fought the whole time , but underneath she was frantic for his love and approval . ’ |
| 7 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 8 | I simply used the extra time to polish them a little . ’ |
| 9 | He was unable to sleep during the day , and used the dead time to keep up with the newspapers and journals in the reading-room and to swim in the club pool while it was comparatively empty . |
| 10 | First , he changed the dramatic time . |
| 11 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 12 | He complained about the cart , the reins , the horse , the road , the sky , his watch ( which never told the right time ) and his clothing . |
| 13 | Maybe it just seemed the right time , and the right place … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said . |
| 15 | There was something I did n't tell you at your father 's funeral because it seemed the wrong time , but two days after he died , I received a letter from him . |
| 16 | He had not been able to in Edinburgh , but now seemed the ideal time . |
| 17 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 18 | I never noticed the exact time , but I was in the bath when I heard the stir down here . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did warn him , ’ sighed the inverted Time Sprout . |
| 20 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 21 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 22 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 23 | Louise came again , towing Suzanne , who spent the entire time shuttered off within the earphones of her Walkman ; if spoken to she smiled with bland and tolerant self-absorption , like the very old . |
| 24 | I spent the whole time trying to explain the family connection . ’ |
| 25 | Only had one sitting , spent the whole time fending the old bugger off . |
| 26 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 27 | Yesterday evening we had a courtesy visit to our rooms from Comrade Wong , Vice-Chairman of the Institute 's Revolutionary Committee , Comrade Chang our cadre organizer , and the luckless Comrade Interpreter Wong , who spent the whole time interpreting , so that he did n't even have a chance to drink his tea or to eat a biscuit . |
| 28 | Rodent rockers hit the big time |
| 29 | He opened his own salon in 1923 and hit the big time in 1935 , when he designed the wedding dress for the Duchess of Gloucester . |
| 30 | Leslie , who first hit the big time on kiddies ' show Crackerjack , was about to host a new TV series of Stars In Their Eyes — nominated for an award as Britain 's best light entertainment show . |