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

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1 Then you were given so much time to get back home again .
2 This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion .
3 Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay .
4 It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’
5 Alright , but you know , you 've got so little time , you know , fifteen minutes is very , very short period of time , so whatever you say
6 Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’
7 I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up .
8 It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove .
9 She was here , the very person he had spent so much time and energy and money tracking down .
10 It was typical of the man who had spent so much time in Four Marks working for the community .
11 They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life .
12 You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken !
13 I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results .
14 I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds .
15 She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past .
16 He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt .
17 Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head .
18 They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other .
19 Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge .
20 ‘ The only reason we 've spent so much time making love is to stop me talking about business , ’ she complained with an unabashed grin .
21 She has n't spent so much time up there since she 's been three .
22 The Prime Minister 's speech was pitiful , not just because policies had collapsed but because he 'd spent so little time preparing it , so busy was he trying to help his chum .
23 Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament .
24 I always have and always will , and we seem to have wasted so much time . ’
25 ‘ We 've wasted so much time . ’
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