Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 2 | But I now felt the time was coming to move on to another department . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , there were many things I wanted to do , but I never had the time for them . |
| 4 | ‘ I never had the time , even if I 'd wanted to take it up . |
| 5 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 6 | Not having to visit Fleet Street meant that her afternoon and evening off could be genuinely relaxing , and she usually spent the time knitting , sewing or reading , with only the occasional foray up West . |
| 7 | She probably spent the time it took her to get to Alès working out her story . |
| 8 | She also recalled the time Tippett had ‘ flu and stayed at their home where he was nursed back to good health . |
| 9 | She also found the time to raise five children — Tommy , Bill , Jack , Molly and myself , the youngest . |
| 10 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 11 | We also measured the time between presentation to hospital and a definite diagnosis of pyloric stenosis being made ; time between presentation to hospital and surgery ; length of preoperative rehydration treatment ; and total length of stay in hospital . |
| 12 | Well if they actually took the time to explain to you what went into those sausages , you probably would n't eat them at all , would you ? |
| 13 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |
| 14 | Some other students — but he knew from experience that his mother would want all the details , and he clearly remembered the time he had slipped out for an evening to meet a girl the only girl he had ever really liked . |
| 15 | Between 1962 and 1965 , de Gaulle reclaimed a more active role in domestic policy , partly because he now had the time to do so and partly because Pompidou , who had never held elective office , had a more presidentialist conception of the constitution than Debré . |
| 16 | But he never had the time . |