Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should try it myself if only I had the time . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 3 | She met John frequently now by arrangement but always they spent the time where they were not likely to be seen . |
| 4 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 5 | Joking apart , after nine years as a security operator I found it hard to readjust my life but , now I do not know how I found the time to do a full time job . |
| 6 | I wonder how she found the time . |
| 7 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 8 | Between the tournaments and all that smiling at the cameras , one wondered how they found the time and the energy to do all those things that the popular press said they did . |
| 9 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 10 | During most of the fourteen years that he was running his restaurant he found it necessary to supplement his earnings by articles , books — heaven knows how he found the time to write them — cookery classes , lectures and the television demonstrations which were the first of their kind . |
| 11 | I just ca n't remember when I found the time to wash my hair and iron creases into my flares . |
| 12 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 13 | His comedy went into those Welsh and newly minted theatrical stories at Oxford where he had the time of his life . |
| 14 | Occasionally he exchanged the time of day . |