Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only fell that time because of those steps . |
| 2 | The first time I ever spent any time with Jackie was also my baptism into driving around a circuit fast . |
| 3 | But on the journey to Vadinamia I also spent some time giving a little thought to security . |
| 4 | I then spent some time trying to teach Clive how to breathe ! |
| 5 | Now , the process we recognise in the pa pathogenesis of meningitis due to this organism is as follows , first of all and then it is able , by , mechanisms not completely described but we could probably involve this transpschycosis er phenomenon that er , I I briefly mentioned last time . |
| 6 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 7 | ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’ |
| 8 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 9 | I believe Vigilant was a better seaboat , but I never served any time on her in adverse conditions to find out . |
| 10 | She desperately needed some time alone to think . |
| 11 | She also spent some time in her home country , Romania , which she left 20 years ago to live in the United States . |
| 12 | She never had much time for me before . ’ |
| 13 | Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’ |
| 14 | Well I think we should take another look at what you actually said this time with subtitles for those poor people who are n't telepathic . |
| 15 | Yes well we save , we possibly saved that time , most of was was completely er occupied , so if we had n't have seen the fire , there could have been forty lives or forty families at risk there . |
| 16 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 17 | They never took proper time over it . ’ |
| 18 | Not only were the staffing ratios higher in community-based services but the observation data also suggests that the staff were ‘ delivered ’ , in that they actually spent more time physically in the presence of clients ( staff were present in 91 per cent of observations in the houses and 86 per cent in the three ‘ campus ’ houses compared with 74 per cent in the hospital settings ) . |
| 19 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 20 | IT HARDLY SEEMED ANY TIME AT ALL BEFORE THE DAYS started to get warmer and spring was here again . |
| 21 | It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine . |
| 22 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 23 | When he was up and about , he also spent some time in the kitchen , having become what was then called a ‘ health-food fanatic ’ . |
| 24 | Not only did he do stupendous work in many areas of pure mathematics but he also devoted much time to probability , theory of errors , geodesy , mechanics , electromagnetism , optics and even actuarial science ! |
| 25 | He probably spent some time at Wittenberg with Luther . |
| 26 | But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge . |
| 27 | It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore . |
| 28 | The " fat " was well-spaced work , with less solid text , and it therefore took less time to set a page . |