Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pig spent the whole time being smacked to and fro , hence ‘ piggie in the middle ’ . |
| 2 | When he spoke at the exhibition , Vivien stood the whole time , keeping her eyes fixed upon his face . |
| 3 | — hit the bottle with a vengeance when the group made the big time . |
| 4 | Rodent rockers hit the big time |
| 5 | Estonia left the Soviet time zone and aligned itself chronologically with Finland ; Christmas became a public holiday ; and the republican capital , Tallinn , was given its Estonian name ( with two ns rather than one ) for all-union purposes . |
| 6 | So it 's a matter of keeping the bank advised the whole time . |
| 7 | All that came later , when the Company reached the big time . ’ |
| 8 | The towns accepted the new time , but not the country areas . |
| 9 | In 1980 , Dirk Coetzee made the big time in the South African Security Police . |
| 10 | Although Luke translated the whole time for her , she felt desperately isolated and sick with longing for Ricky . |
| 11 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |