Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't given me enough time . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Nobody 's ever happy when they 're on the bench , but it 's given me some time to get my mind right again . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 4 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 5 | I think I 've cracked it this time . ’ |
| 6 | Actually , we have earned our quiet time , for six months continuously in action is enough for anybody … ’ |
| 7 | Mrs Coates said : ‘ We have had a lot of support getting this set up , many local firms have contributed and a lot of people have given their free time . |
| 8 | Given their short time in port , members continued to be disappointed when instant success eluded them . |
| 9 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 10 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 11 | Wilson felt only dimly aware of Miss Blagden 's kindness but later came to realise this sign and evidence of human concern had most probably saved her that time from real madness . |
| 12 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 13 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 14 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
| 15 | You 've really done it this time . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've really done it this time , have n't I ? ’ |
| 17 | " You 've done it this time … |
| 18 | Your lad 's really done it this time . |
| 19 | Yes Dublin Sports and Social Committee has really done it this time ! |
| 20 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
| 21 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 22 | and this chappie had a double hip replacement operation , it 's been on the television here and er , he said they started off dancing with Sammy Davis , you know , er what 's it called , Tip Tap Toe or something like that , they , they act Sammy Davis and his , and his parents and then these two chaps I , I mean they had n't made it big time |
| 23 | The Germans have made it clear time and again that ‘ in the field of monetary policy the principle of subsidiarity does not apply ’ . |
| 24 | I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia . |
| 25 | I 've given you enough time to get over everything I 've said to you . |
| 26 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 27 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 28 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 29 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 30 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |