Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 2 | Over a period of two weeks they noted the time she went to bed each night and calculated an average ‘ time late ’ . |
| 3 | On that occasion we lost no time in speeding over to the courts , finding a judge , and obtaining an injunction almost at once . |
| 4 | For the rest of the morning he had no time to think about her . |
| 5 | Once on the island he lost no time getting to the prison , and within the hour was waiting in the ante-chamber to an interview room , listening to the distant , hollow sound of metal ringing on metal , and footsteps echoing morbidly as men exercised and moved about their token business . |
| 6 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 7 | It was only a very light avalanche : this close to the summit it had no time to gather power . |
| 8 | She moved so fast to the door he had no time for even one step . |
| 9 | At a philosophical level he had no time for notions of the social contract or human rights ( he famously described the idea of natural rights as ‘ nonsense upon stilts ’ . ) |
| 10 | On board Viking we lost no time in following the example of our shipmates who were sound asleep , blissfully indifferent to the activities on shore . |
| 11 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 12 | Along the way she found the time to set up Ranzau , and in March this year the couple ploughed their capital into beefing it up . |
| 13 | A grid of reference wires in front of the rotating map presented the hours , and as the solar image passed each wire it indicated the time as well as any sundial could . |
| 14 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |