Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought he 'd be man enough to — ’ but Leith had other things on her mind and wasted no time cutting in and going into orbit . |
| 2 | Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time . |
| 3 | He attacked the Government for its complacency over the issue and compared the time taken over the taking stock package with the quick unveiling of the Conservative proposals on the future of water and local government . |
| 4 | Isa Blagden found her weeping over this one afternoon and took the time to console her , pointing out that soon , in her new position , Oreste would join her and at two years of age would quickly become hers again . |
| 5 | But when he was with her alone Wilson watched him kicking a ball down her stairs and fight with Ferdinando in her kitchen and knew the time would come when his mother must face facts . |
| 6 | Between 1750 and 1755 he entered poems five times for the annual Seatonian prize at Cambridge and won every time . |
| 7 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 8 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 9 | A low drone of talk hummed in the hut , and Holly lay on his back on his bunk and gazed at the roof rafters and counted the time between each fall of a water drop to his feet . |
| 10 | That is , she was pragmatic by sex and had no time to waste on cerebral subtleties . |
| 11 | He knew most of the men who used the line and passed the time of day with them . |
| 12 | On that day we scrutinised all the temporary folders in the box and noted the time that had elapsed since the proper notes had been requested . |
| 13 | Felicity had come out in a severe facial rash and spent the time either screaming or staring fixedly at the paperknife on her desk . |