Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Time spent in careful planning at the beginning of a test can make the test more efficient and economical and save much time in its execution .
2 And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time .
3 After swimming she had felt completely alive and glad to be awake and have this time of her own , which had been a gift to her from Tom and Maggie .
4 Apparently they wanted to get away from it all and spend some time alone together . ’
5 ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained .
6 I did and I chose black and grey that time round .
7 And the way she was talking it looked like they were gon they were going to put some more and invest some time , money
8 But , having said that , as I got older and spent more time with my father I began to learn more about him .
9 My research indicates a variety of routes to class , trade union and gender consciousness and the probability of interaction between several factors : hardships experienced in a working-class childhood ; changes in household structure , such as taking over the ‘ man 's ’ role of breadwinner ; becoming involved in industrial action ; developing a new awareness of how social life is organised through contact with political or trade union ideologies ; and just growing older and having more time free from actual and ideological family constraints .
10 Having suffered a breakdown , she gave up her job in 1907 and spent some time in Sussex .
11 Alternatively , did the Tethys/Mediterranean , like the Atlantic , open and shut several times ?
12 The train was slow and stopped several times for no reason we knew of and with no apparent likelihood of continuing .
13 ‘ The girl was very distressed and took some time to tell us exactly what had happened .
14 ACT include two players in their squad who are no strangers to Scotland — centre Jim Swan who has returned after playing in the junior teams at Gala , and flanker Mark McInnes , who toured with the Wallabies to Canada and France in 1989 and spent some time with Peebles .
15 The thought patterns allow me to erm put down what I wanted to talk about , expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area .
16 A book published in 1960 , reprinted in 1962 , revised in 1968 and reprinted several times since only requires you to obtain a copy of the revised edition and not necessarily the most recent impression .
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