Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I found out the times I would be working things started to look better . |
| 2 | I did n't offer an opinion on that since I did n't have any , so I took up the time admiring the surroundings . |
| 3 | I remembered also the time we finally accepted that British Council invitation and went to give a poetry reading in Madrid . |
| 4 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 5 | It had been thought here that Mr Lawson might at least repeat the formula of the Madrid summit , which defined when the time would be ripe for the pound to join with the words ‘ once inflation is again on a downward path and we have seen the removal of exchange controls by our Community partners ’ . |
| 6 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |
| 7 | Berthe Weill protested that she could not leave the gallery for the moment , she had n't the time , there were all the guests to look after . |
| 8 | But as times became more difficult with the passing years I suppose she had neither the time nor the inclination to play music . |
| 9 | No doubt the wall was lower at some point — down at the edge of the parkland , perhaps — but she had neither the time nor the inclination to find out . |
| 10 | To be as fair to her as is possible , it can at least be said that the work which she had plagiarized on her behalf ( since she had neither the time nor the inclination to copy it herself ) was generally of good standard . |
| 11 | It seemed ages before they sorted out the time . |
| 12 | They whiled away the time , Ranulf playing dice against himself , the only time he ever lost . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 've been stung by nettles , ’ he said , injured , and pretended not to hear Dorrainge who said it was a mistake to pamper nettle stings , and they had n't the time to soothe people 's silly imagined injuries . |
| 14 | These new men showed they had neither the time nor the political inclination to instigate a programme of Whig reform ; indeed , partly reacting against the Jacobite challenge of 1715 , they introduced a number of measures designed to ensure their and the new dynasty 's political security which seemed to represent an abandonment of what Whiggery had traditionally stood for . |
| 15 | I ca n't say that alcohol did anything to lift my spirits , but at least it filled in the time before my date with Detective Inspector Redpath . |
| 16 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 17 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 18 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 19 | He whiled away the time by contemplating the stained glass lancet windows behind the preacher and the holy table . |