Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the previous week the manor had cut the time to the summit by five minutes , but this was still two minutes short of the performance of No 75069 in June . |
| 2 | Fakrid had entered the Time of Blood . |
| 3 | Isabel wondered when fitzAlan had found the time to pack up the garments . |
| 4 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 5 | Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door . |
| 6 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 7 | A COMPUTER system introduced by Japan 's Ministry of Health has cut the time taken to match a kidney donor with the most suitable recipient from several hours to three minutes . |
| 8 | Otherwise the men had passed the time reading and keeping an eye out for aircraft . |
| 9 | ‘ We have had a few of our delivery men have missed the time by just two or three minutes but as people get used to it things should improve , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 10 | With more than 30 different sightings of mink in a recent five hour match at Kidsgrove and Scholar Green , anglers have agreed the time is right to remove the killers |
| 11 | ‘ If only Jimmy Knapp and his union colleagues had taken the time to read our manifesto , they would have realised this and saved themselves undoubted embarrassment . ’ |
| 12 | I was thrilled that someone as important as the Archbishop of Canterbury had taken the time to call me , although I could n't help but think it odd that an Archbishop was now leaving messages on the same answering machine as my mum . |